'Outsider Within': Reflexivity and working with African Caribbean Immigrants in Qualitative Research

Abstract

In trying to dismantle the hegemony of Western methodological frameworks, feminist and Black methodologies, which critique objectivity and value reciprocal engagement between researcher and subject, were used to explore research issues with African Caribbean subjects. In addition, using reflexivity, a process that is central to Black and feminist analytical frameworks, the authors interrogate and dispute the value of 'inherited western techniques' such as objectivity and the distancing of researcher from the 'researched'.