Building Trust: Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities

By Fumiko Hosokawa

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739143492
• ISBN13: 9780739143490
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"