“Intelligent Leadership in the Cause of Racial Brotherhood”

This chapter introduces the annual Institute of Race Relations (IRR). The institute recruited many prominent scholars of race and ethnicity, offering individual students, both Quakers and non-Quakers, the opportunity to study race in the classroom and then apply their newfound understandings outside it. While the first two institutes had a secular orientation, by the mid-1930s Friends consciously attempted to make the scholarly work of the institute theologically relevant for themselves. While earlier AFSC projects had attacked racism as an individual problem, Quakers in the Service Committee emerged from the Institute of Race Relations with a broader understanding of systemic problems that had to be engaged, too.

Qualitative and Multimethod Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration

This article describes the rapid development of institutions for the study of qualitative methods in the past decade. It first begins by presenting an overview of the approach to methodology that underpins the idea of qualitative and multimethod work. It then discusses these new organizations, in particular the Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research of the American Political Science Association, and the annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. It outlines the patterns of publication, and a conclusion considers briefly the merits of an integrative, versus a separate tracks, approach to coordinating alternative methodologies. The formation of the organizations linked with qualitative/multimethod work reflected the need for methodologists with convergent skills and objectives to have a meaningful forum for dialogue.