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Enrique T. Trueba is the author of Latinos Unidos and editor of Immigrant Voices. He has published a number of books and articles on cultural and linguistic diversity, immigrant children, and resiliency. Dr. Trueba is the RubZn E. Hinojosa Regents' Professor Emeritus in Education, University of Texas, Austin. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Education. Yali Zou is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of Houston. She has published a number of articles and books on ethnic identity, immigration and multicultural issues.
Chapter 1 The Collusion of Illusion and How to Get People to Tell You What They Don't Know
Chapter 2 Ethnography? Or Educational Travel Writing?
Chapter 3 The Destructive Desire for a Depoliticized Ethnographic Methodology: Response to Harry F. Wolcott
Chapter 4 The Hidden History of Praxis Theory within Critical Ethnography and the Criticalism/Postmodernism Problematic
Chapter 5 Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research
Chapter 6 Critical Ethnography in the Postcritical Moment
Chapter 7 The Challenge of Urban Ethnography
Chapter 8 Methodological Challenges of Critical Ethnography: Insights from Collaborations on an Idigenous Counter Narrative
Chapter 9 Adaptive Strategies of a Chinese Immigrant
Chapter 10 Stories and Structures of Persistence: Ethnographic Learning Through Research and Practice in Asian American Studies
Chapter 11 The Class Clown: A School Liminar
Chapter 12 Critical Ethnography and Community Change
Provide readers with an overview of the research trajectory followed by particular researchers and the intersection of theory, method, advocacy, and the role of self and other in critical ethnography.....
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A challenging and enjoyable read. The rich mix of theory, research, and practice makes excellent material for reflection by experienced and novice researchers alike.....
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A rich discussion of critical ethnography that gives researchers the basis on which they can develop critical ethnographic studies within the framework delineated by these authors without falling into some of the pitfalls they identify.....
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This collection of essays is impressive for the range of approaches to ethnography that it covers, from classic interpretive ethnography through critical ethnography to action research. An additional benefit is a set of reviews, from divergent perspectives, of the intellectual history of critical social theory in relation to critical ethnography....
— Frederick Erickson, George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education, University of California, Los Angeles