Abstract
As other researchers have also acknowledged, participatory action research (PAR) poses many challenges for “expert” researchers and community-based researchers alike.’ The literature reflects a near universal acknowledgment that large-scale collaborative research projects are bound to be subjected and influenced by politics and power differentials. This is especially so in cross-racial collaborations. Situated in a US region with an entrenched history of racial conflict, the Umbrella Group’s work was rife with distrust, skepticism, and tensions that have come to characterize post-Katrina New Orleans.2 Many education scholars, community activists, and members New Orleans’ African American community viewed choice-based school reform efforts as an extension of neoliberal policies designed to “reclaim” and “rebuild” the city to serve corporate and White middle-class interests and sensibilities, respectively.3
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