Uniting postcolonial, discourse, and linguistic theory to explore participation of African Americans in cancer research as an effect of social and historical race relationships.
This article uses a historical framework of postcolonialism; discourse analytic concepts (significance, identity, and relationships); and 5 social and cultural linguistic principles of emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, and partialness as a theoretical and methodological triangulation approach to data analysis of focus group discussion. Exemplars of focus group data from a study exploring African American participation in research demonstrate the application of this combined framework as a useful tool for analysis. This approach allows for examination of identity and interaction and generates a more rigorous and complete understanding of how individuals use language to construct identity as participants or nonparticipants in research.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/University of Massachusetts Boston, The Phyllis F. Cantor Center, Boston, Massachusetts, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York (Dr Somayaji); and College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D003144:Communication Barriers; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000266:history; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000473:pathology; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000266:history; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D018579:Patient Selection; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011822:Race Relations / Q000266:history; D063505:Racism / Q000266:history; D012933:Social Identification; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States