Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-175) and index.
Basic guidelines for doing fieldwork -- Supervision and the ethics of doing fieldwork -- The fieldwork experience -- Ethnic groups and communities -- The Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians -- African Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Mexican Americans -- Samoan Americans -- Building trust.
0
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.
Immigrants-- Social conditions-- Research-- United States.
Minorities-- Social conditions-- Research-- United States.