Can Numbers Be Gender- and Race-Conscious? Advocating for a Chicana Feminist Quantitative Research Agenda

• In Event: Emergent Trends in Latinx Intersectional Research

Abstract

The objective of this integrated literature review is to insert a discussion of a body of scholarship that has been largely overlooked in efforts to expand quantitative methodological innovations in educational research—Chicana feminist scholarship. We argue that a Chicana feminist approach to quantitative methods embraces the contradictions of positivistic binaries of Western thought by offering a space to theorize strategies for uncovering the ways that numbers are both race and gender conscious. We trace the genealogy of feminist thought, quantitative methodologies and critical perspectives in education,and Chicana feminist methodologies across two databases in the social sciences. We conclude by offering a working definition of a Chicana feminist quantitative research agenda to engage in alternative modes of theory and method.

Authors

• Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University

• Lindsay Pérez Huber, California State University - Long Beach

• Verónica Nelly Vélez, Western Washington University