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- Title
Research in Black and White.
- Authors
Adamson, Joy; Donovan, Jenny L.
- Abstract
The authors consider the methodological, interpretative, and practical issues that arise when there is a difference in ethnicity between researcher and informant in qualitative research by drawing on the academic literature and their fieldwork experiences as White researchers undertaking studies with individuals of African/Caribbean and South Asian descent. Some contemporary issues raised by "researching the other" in the context of pragmatic health services research are highlighted, including access to same-ethnicity researchers, the involvement of interpreters, and the potential for ethnocentric interpretation. The authors believe that qualitative research should be judged by the plausibility of the findings and by a critical evaluation of the way in which the research was conducted and the reflexivity of the researcher.
- Subjects
QUALITATIVE research; ETHNICITY; MEDICAL care research
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2002, Vol 12, Issue 6, p816
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10432302012006008