This article offers a reflexive look at the racial conditions of a field survey on the French far right party Rassemblement national. While race issues may seem obvious in a research on the far right, racial dimensions remains little analyzed in the literature. In particular, the article highlights how whiteness influences both access to the field and the nature of the data collected. In the field, being perceived as white allows the researcher to benefit from invisibilization (not being racially marked in a negative way) and connivance (being included in a racialized "us"). Acknowledging that race matters methodologically speaking also engages normative questions about recurrent calls for "empathy" towards the far right.
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