Building Trust Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities

by Hosokawa, Fumiko

• ISBN13: 9780739143506
• ISBN10: 0739143506
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Author Biography

Fumiko Hosokawa is a professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
	p. 9
Basic Guidelines for Doing Fieldwork	p. 11
Supervision and the Ethics of Doing Fieldwork	p. 25
	p. 37
The Fieldwork Experience	p. 39
Ethnic Groups and Communities	p. 47
	p. 61
The Vietnamese and Other Southeast Asians	p. 65
African Americans	p. 87
Japanese Americans	p. 99
Mexican Americans	p. 119
Samoan Americans	p. 135
	p. 151
Building Trust	p. 153
References	p. 171
Appendix	p. 177
Index	p. 179
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