Race-politics scholarship skews to local cases and policy studies, leaving theory underexplored

Evidence

This situation is partly the result of (1) the abstract and generalized nature of much of the theoretical debates that have developed in recent years, and (2) the lack of theoretically informed research on the dynamics of racialized politics in the contemporary period. … But it is not surprising when we take into account the fact that much of the research on the politics of race in contemporary societies has been concerned with either local case studies or very specific studies of policy formation and the impact of policies on racial issues. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2149

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the same local-case-study-vs-theory gap flagged in my political-economy reading; ties to how discipline-specific literatures self-silo. — connects to: the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”