# Racial injustice: our role as researchers and methodologists

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**Category:** justice\
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/racial-injustice-our-role-as-researchers-and-methodologists/3422 "2020-06-05T15:28:38Z")\
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Lucy, thank you for bringing that up. And it reminds me that in order to know who we might be “trimming out,” we need to have good ways of asking people to identify themselves. I just started a new thread about that: [Best practices for recording race/ethnicity](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/best-practices-for-recording-race-ethnicity/3431).

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