This book approaches theory as approaches theory as a method for doing research, rather than as a background framework.

Cheryl E. Matias is a full professor and Director of Secondary Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on race, whiteness, and education, and she was awarded the 2020 American Educational Research Association Division K Mid-Career award. She's a motherscholar of three.

1. Critical Race Hermeneutics: A Theoretical Method for Researching the Unconscious of White Supremacy in Education 2. The Postdigital Challenge of Critical Educational Research 3. Aspiring to a Sociogenic Phenomenology: A Theoretical Method in Emancipatory Research 4. A Fused Theory of Biopower and Political Vulnerability as a Theoretical Method to Investigate 'Difficult Knowledge' 5. Uncovering Internalized Whiteness through Critical Race Counterstories: Navigating our Experiences in the State of Texas 6. Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment: Method and the Study of White Humanity in Education 7. Visually Mapping Totality: Fredric Jameson's Greimasian Square 8. Cultivating Culturally Situated Theorizing in Educational Research: Challenging Imperialistic Curriculum and Training 9. Synthesizing Theoretical, Qualitative, and Quantitative Research: Metasynthesis as a Methodology for Education 10. Agential Realism: Applying Barad's Ontology to Reconceptualize Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Social Justice 11. Toward a Transgressive Decolonial Hermeneutics in Activist Education Research 12. Thinking with Habitus in the Study of Learner Identities 13. Theorizing with Assemblage: Context and Text in Youth Studies 14. Using Critical Race Spatial Method to Understand Disparities in Controlled Choice Plans 15. Critical Chronotopic Analysis for Disrupting Whitewashedness in TESOL Teacher Education 16. Postformal Method for Critical Education Research 17. Black Lives Mattering In and Out of Schools: Anti-Black Racism, Racial Violence, and a Hope for Black Imagination in Educational Research 18. Beyond the Individual: Deploying the Sociological Imagination as a Research Method in the Neoliberal University 19. Unapologetic Black Inquiry: Centering Blackness in Education Research 20. Paying Emotional Tolls: Politics, Poststructural Narrative Theory, and Research on Race and Racism Subjects for Emotional Well-Being 21. Meditations on Experience: The Politics and Ethics of "Not-knowing" in Educational Research