Building trust : doing research to understand ethnic communities / Fumiko Hosokawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hosokawa, Fumiko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--United States--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies five ethnic communities_South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Samoan Americans_to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. Focusing on trust-building as a necessary process in doing good community research, this book offers the reader culturally sensitive methods to approach interaction and interviewing members of each of these unique, multifaceted ethnic communities.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Chapter 01. Introduction; Part I; Chapter 02. Basic Guidelines for Doing Fieldwork; Chapter 03. Supervision and the Ethics of Doing Fieldwork; Part II; Chapter 04. The Fieldwork Experience; Chapter 05. Ethnic Groups and Communities; Part III; Chapter 06. The Vietnamese and Other Southeast Asians; Chapter 07. African Americans; Chapter 08. Japanese Americans; Chapter 09. Mexican Americans; Chapter 10. Samoan Americans; Part IV; Chapter 11. Building Trust; References; Appendix. Interview Schedule and Questionnaire Pilot Ethnic Research Training Project (1980); Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-47928-8

9786612479281

0-7391-4351-4

OCLC:

659562502