Toward Racial Equity
Navigating Diverse Conceptualizations and Perspectives in Social Justice-Oriented Evaluation Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cherie M Avent (0000-0001-9855-5239, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Rebecca M Teasdale (0000-0002-1981-7032, University of Illinois Chicago), Xinru Yan (0009-0002-7281-249X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), María B Serrano-Abreu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ceily L Moore (0000-0003-3281-0457, University of Illinois Chicago) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-308 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10982140251315413 |
| OpenAlex | W4408521705 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 47 |
The effects of race can manifest in various ways in evaluation contexts, making it critical for evaluators to unpack how race and racism are “complex and destructive forces” for racially minoritized and Indigenous communities. The clarion calls by evaluators on the need for greater attention to issues of race and racism in evaluation underscore the profound urgency to investigate the topic now, given that evaluation can be an important driver in creating societal change, both with and as part of racially minoritized and Indigenous communities. Our purpose in this article is to share findings from 29 semi-structured interviews that address racial equity conceptualizations advanced by programs or evaluators and how evaluators navigated differing conceptualizations or viewpoints of racial equity when working with community members, program leaders or staff, and funders or commissioners
Criminology · Economic Justice · Equity (law · Evaluation methods · Political science · Program evaluation · Racial bias · Racism · Social justice · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Qualitative interviewing
Culturally Responsive Evaluation
The criticality of language
Qualitative Research
Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education
Reframing Evaluation
Evaluation, Language, and Untranslatables
Slipping Through the Front Door
Social Justice as Ontology
Unequal Power—Changing Landscapes
The Other Side of Inequality
What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice
Racism, Social Programming, and Evaluation
Looking Backward but Moving Forward
Can Social Justice Live in a House of Structural Racism? A Question for the Field of Evaluation
Exploring NSF-Funded Evaluators’ and Principal Investigators’ Definitions and Measurement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Introduction to the Section on Race and Evaluation
Evaluation’s Race Problem in the United States
Navigating the Field While Black
Values Engagement in Evaluation
The New Jim Crow
Naturalistic inquiry
It Has to Be the Common Thread
In Search of Subjectivity-One's Own
Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality
What Justice Wants
Techniques to Identify Themes
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |