This book fills a significant void in the research on ethnic minority cultural centers, offers the historic background to their establishment and development, considers the circumstances that led to their creation, examines the roles they play on campus, explores their impact on retention and campus climate, and provides guidelines for their…

Guidelines are offered for mental health professionals who work with economically disadvantaged children and adolescents from culturally diverse backgrounds. These guidelines describe useful theoretical constructs, suggest ways to sensitize assessments of minority children, and outline treatment strategies to obtain better clinical results. The…

Originally presented as lectures at Georgia State University in 1982, these three papers address the themes of multiethnic societies in the United States and Great Britain. In the first paper "Identity, Conflict, and Survival Mechanisms for Asian Americans," the author discusses how the observable patterns of mobility through education…

The "Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools" examines cultural recognition and the struggle for identity in America's schools. In particular, the contributing authors focus on the recognition and misrecognition as antagonistic cultural forces that work to shape, and at times distort identity. What surfaces throughout the chapters are…

This book is designed to provide educators and prospective educators with knowledge essential to making decisions about teaching and learning. The book is intended as a foundation for thinking about curriculum and pedagogy. Case studies involving African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, and white American groups are…

This comprehensive and up-to-date history of American education encourages critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each major historical period. It shows how educational history is nested within and shaped by the larger forces, including mass media, that shape the dissemination of knowledge and power within society.…

This book presents interviews with people of color from four groups (African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos), many of whom are teachers or education professionals, who express their attitudes toward teaching and understanding of why minority students are not choosing to become teachers. The book addresses the problem of…

This book responds to public interest in immigration issues by providing a comprehensive empirical analysis of contemporary Asian Pacific American immigration experience. It focuses on four highly significant, but largely misunderstood, aspects of the contemporary Asian Pacific experience: patterns of demographic growth and diversification; high…

This collection of essays traces the historical development of ethnic studies, its place in U.S. universities and the curriculum, and new directions in contemporary scholarship. Essays include: "Introduction: Color-Line to Borderlands" (Johnnella E. Butler); "Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?" (Ronald Takaki);…

Intended for use by American literature teachers who wish to use a single-volume work offering overviews of the literary traditions of selected minority groups, this book contains not only broad overviews, but also detailed analyses of specific works that constitute significant aspects of the Chicano, Native American, and Asian American…

This general history of Asian-American education provides information about individual ethnic groups. Each of the 12 country-specific chapters begins with a description of the kind of education received in the home country, including how widely available education was, how equal the society was, and the circumstances that resulted in the…

A comprehensive and comparative compilation of the social science literature pertinent to ethnic discrimination and racial discrimination and practice is presented, focusing on areas of discrimination common to these groups in economics, education, employment, health, housing, criminal justice, and political participation. To represent major…

This book presents essays concerning culturally responsive psychotherapeutic interventions for specific problems commonly experienced by ethnic-minority youth. Each essay offers case examples, along with a clinical how-to approach for dealing with problems such as cross-racial foster care, gang involvement, child abuse, and substance abuse. Essays…

This resource book is designed to assist educators in developing curricula and learning materials that are centered around the values of cultural pluralism. The booklet first presents a policy statement, created by the Board of Education of the Rochester City School District (New York), concerning multicultural education and curriculum…

Turning the question of "what works" in education on its head, this book, which is a volume of "Review of Research in Education," digs into recent salient research that examines learning contexts within critical literacy, scientific literacy, and teacher education. Highlighting the importance of leveraging current research to explore ways in which…