"Kids" don't publish research. Scholars do. No matter whether they are full professors or graduate students, scholars bear responsibility for the research and writing they put out into the world.
People on this board have a wide-ranging and creative language for absolving white scholars of blame for the research and writing that they produce, and "kid" is just the latest example.
Hmm? If anything, Alice Goffman was pretty darn close to being a kid when she collected her data on that Philly neighborhood and this board was nothing short of merciless in tearing her a new one (i.e., they went beyond the legitimate methodological criticisms).
she published that work as a grown ass woman ABD though. stop calling white adults "kids." She had plenty of time to rethink her role in her work and she took years framing it just-so for the fictionalized novela she ended up publishing