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ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 487-511Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01419870600597909
Keywords
ethnography; photography; visual sociology; photo-elicitation interviews; interracial families; racial theory; Black British
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I propose a model for employing photograph-elicitation interviews in longitudinal ethnographic research on race and intimacy by drawing upon research that I conducted among British interracial families between 1995 and 2003. I evaluate my use of family photographs in photo-elicitation interviews as a methodological tool, a source of primary data and as evidence for theory. I used photo-interviews as a collaborative methodological tool to clarify and challenge theories that I had developed to explain how white birth mothers of African-descent children negotiate their racial profiles in public and private arenas. I analyse a case study of one transracial mother who strategically employed family photographs to project respectable presentations of her interracial familial life.
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