It Has to Be the Common Thread
Weaving Attention to Racial Equity and Justice Across Lines of Inquiry and Evaluative Criteria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca M Teasdale (0000-0002-1981-7032, University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author), Cherie M Avent (0000-0001-9855-5239, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA), Ceily L Moore (0000-0003-3281-0457, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA), María B Serrano Abreu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA), Xinru Yan (0009-0002-7281-249X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-264 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-26 |
| 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 | 10.1177/10982140241260069 |
| OpenAlex | W4401034984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
Evaluators must attend to the destructive forces of racialization and racism to contribute to social transformation. Thus, evaluators are called to center culture, context, equity, and social justice during each step of the evaluation process. Here, we focus on the step(s) in which evaluators define program quality and specify evaluative lines of inquiry. We interviewed 29 social justice-oriented evaluators to examine lines of inquiry for programs in which racial equity or justice played a role. Our findings illuminate the definitions of quality and lines of inquiry evaluators pursued and the values that shaped those definitions of quality. We document empirical examples of how evaluators were responsive to contexts and communities and navigated pre-set lines of inquiry. Our findings further illuminate how evaluators can weave attention to racial equity and justice as the “common thread” across lines of inquiry and create opportunities and structures for centering racial equity and justice
Criminology · Equity (law · Political science · Procedural justice · Public relations · Racialization · Racism · Social justice · Sociology · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |