Cultural Compass

by Benito M. Vergara Jr. and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Cultural Compass re-writes the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566397731
• ISBN13: 9781566397735
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

a useful book on the topic of ethnographic research

I happened upon this book by accident and am glad I did. There are some good chapters on different concerns in conducting ethnographic-type research in an Asian American community or organization as a co-ethnic. What kinds of things to beware of, what kinds of co-optation could possibly occur.Seems like some young, new researchers who are excited about the possibility of researching Asian Americans in real day-to-day situations. Some good insight into problems which could come up and the special advantages of "researching your own."Deals also with concerns of Asian Americans from one ethnic group conducting research with other ethnic Asian Americans.