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Drawing on my own research experiences, I move toward a methodology of death (for researcher/researched alike) grounded in Deleuze’s philosophy-as-method and his concept of event. I approach ethnographic research with this concept in mind in order to unpack the experiences of Latino immigrant youth activism during a critical ethnography in Chicago. I suggest that new ways of thinking with Deleuze in qualitative inquiry might offer a breakthrough/breakdown and death of systems of thought that position research subjects in limiting ways, ultimately arguing that Deleuzian “event” offers the possibility for the birth of new selves.  \nKeywords: Deleuze, youth identity, urban education, poststructuralist critical ethnography  \nWe were arrested. The handcuffs felt tight on our wrists. We claimed that space. I do activist things even though I’m nothing.  \n–Youth Activists, Amelia and Penny  \nIntroduction  \nKoro-Ljungberg, Carlson, Tesar, and Anderson (2014) recently argued,“philosophy as method isan engagement, an ethical relationship with thought. Philosophy as a method brings theory into the practice and ontologies into the research processes”(p. 5) . This ethical dimension of philosophy is also documented in ethnography. For instance, Stich, Cipollone, Nikischer and Weis (2012) claim,“qualitative research, ethnography in particular, is deeply personal”(p. 463) . The deeply personal aspects of qualitative inquiry, and ethnography specifically, raise philosophical questions of method that are the “conceptual epicenter” of research (Smagorinsky, 2008) . Further, Tamboukou and Ball (2003) have posited,“the status of the ethnographer is a major epistemological concern”(p. 2), suggesting the philosophical underpinnings that guide qualitative inquiry be considered.  \nIn this article, I examine the relationship between ethnography and the philosophical and theoretical dimensions of qualitative inquiry, and offer an example of how to engage with theoretical concepts in meaningful ways. Further, I agree with the comments in this special issue that,“tobe critical one must work towards truth-claims that disrupt the normative flow of common-sense;  \ncritical work cannot replicate what is already known”(Kuntz & Pickup, 2015 CFP) . Given this challenge, as a critical ethnographer who engages with post-structural theory, I wish to explore how one actually disrupts the normative truth-telling mechanisms that are so often promoted in social science research (Rodriguez, 2015a), and to problematize what Patti Lather (1991) has called the normative, and thus limiting, ways of “knowing” subjects in the research process.  \nProblematizing the Critical in Critical Ethnography  \nAs I journey through the experiences of being a critical ethnographer, and consider what it means to engage in the inquiry process, I often gravitate toward poststructuralist theory for a few reasons. First, I have grown to understand that research is a process of knowledge production where the researcher retains power over that which constitutes “truth.” This means that voices are heard and can go unheard in the research process and in the final product (i.e. narrative or publication), which is important to reflect upon as researchers make decisions about selecting interview participants or the passages that form the narrative. As I explain in the article, part of what it means to be critical is to consider the voices of marginalized groups and the power structures that operate in society so whose voice is included and excluded in a critical ethnography is of value. 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