Contents
Foreword by William E. Cross, Jr. ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Section I: Setting the Stage
1 Craft ing a Design to Yield a Complete Story 9
2 Th e Semi-Structured Interview as a Repertoire of Possibilities 45
Section II: The Semi-Structured Interview:
Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
3 Conducting the Interview: Th e Role of Reciprocity
and Refl exivity 75
4 Ongoing and Iterative Data Analysis 119
Section III: Synthesizing and Interpreting
Research Findings
5 Building Th eory 149
6 Writing Up and Speaking Back to the Literature 173
Aft erword: Loose Th reads 191
Appendix A: Sample Protocol for Student Participants 195
Appendix B: Past as Present, Present as Past: Historicizing
Black Education and Interrogating “Integration” 203
Notes 231
References 235
Index 241
About the Author 245