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I position critical ethnographic researcher field notes as an opportunity to document the physical and ideological violence that white settler states and institutions on the school-prison nexus inflict on the lives of girls of color generally and Black girls specifically. By drawing on my own field notes, I argue that critical social science researchers have an ethical duty to move their inquiries beyond conventions of settler colonial empirical science when they are wanting to create knowledges that transcend traditions of body counts and classification systems of human lives. As first responders to the social emergencies in girls' lives, researchers can make palpable spatialization of institutionalized forms of settler epistemologies to convey more girl-centered ways of speaking against quantifiable hierarchies of human life. Keywords: carcerality, critical ethnography, research methods, school-prison nexus, settler epistemologies, social science research, spatialization of racism
Introduction: Opening Words About 'Research' In this personal, reflective, and exploratory article, I reposition researchers' field notes as urgent and empirically reliable witness accounts of people, their physical settings, and [...]