Insider/Outsider and Ethics

Read following material and write a two page research memo which is informed by your own field work to the problems posed. Develop an outline of research paper. Email to Instructor. This 15-20 page paper will be a joint project between two people. It wil l bring together various aspects of the quarters assignments. Specific instructions will be handled out.

Zavella, Patricia. "Recording Chicana Life Histories: Refining the Insider's Perspective," SIROW Working Paper, 1982. 25 pp.

Zinn, Maxinne Baca. "Field Research in Minority Communities: Ethical, Methodological and Political Observations by an Insider," Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1979), 209-219.