| Description |
xviii, 271 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Participatory action research : a new vision and practice in Latino communities / Juana Mora, David R. Diaz -- Creating a new vision and role for research in Latino communities -- Plugging the brain drain : bringing our education back home / Teresa Cordova -- Latino community and research partnerships in practice -- Participatory perspective on parent involvement / Olga A. Vasquez -- Building community, research, and policy : a case of community health and Central Americans in Los Angeles / Claudia Dorrington, Beatriz Solis -- Critical ethnography and substance abuse research among transnational Mexican farmworkers / Victor Garcia -- Community contexts and Chicano/a methods of inquiry : grounded research and informed praxis / James Diego Vigil, Juan Munoz -- Identity and field research in Mexico : lessons for research and social policy for U.S. Latinos / Maria Teresa Vazquez Castillo -- Social scientists, public housing residents, and action research in a Chicano barrio in East Los Angeles / David R. Diaz -- Research to policy and practice : influencing Latino policy and program development -- Community action research with census data : the Latino collection for a new Los Angeles, 1992-1993 / David E. Hayes-Bautista -- Expanding Latino community capacity for sustainable programs through researcher-community partnerships / Juana Mora. |
| Subject |
Latin Americans -- Research -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Latin Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions.
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Latin Americans -- Research -- Mexico.
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Latin Americans -- Mexico -- Social conditions.
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Action research -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Action research -- Mexico.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social policy.
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Mexico -- Social policy.
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| Added Author |
Mora, Juana M.
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Diaz, David R., 1951-
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| ISBN |
0789017601 (soft : alk. paper) |
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0789017598 (alk. paper) |
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