Julie Bettie wrote her ethnography Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity to examine the role of race and class in the lives of girls in California's Central Valley. She did most of her work at a high school, hanging out with and talking to students, but she felt very self-conscious about writing down her observations where the girls could see her, so she often ducked into a bathroom stall to write. What do ethnographers call her written observations?

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Ethnographers call written observations fieldnotes.

Julie Bettie Wrote Her Ethnography Women Without Class: Girls, Race