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Randall-David, Elizabeth – 1994
This manual is designed to aid health care practitioners in providing culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) education, counseling, and care. Cultural competency is defined as the ability to work effectively with culturally diverse clients and communities because the individual agency or…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adults, American Indians, Asian Americans
Hagedorn, John M.; Macon, Perry – 1988
Minority gangs of the 1980s are examined as groups of juveniles and young adults and as a fraction of the forming underclass. Gangs today no longer disappear as their ethnic groups rises socially. Instead, gangs are becoming institutionalized in the central cities. This discussion of prior research in Los Angeles (California) and more recent…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth, Ethnic Groups, Hispanic Americans
Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Milburn, JoAnne Fellows – 1996
This book affirms that the behaviors of young people from culturally diverse populations need to be viewed from a cultural perspective, and that instruction should affirm students and empower them to achieve maximally as well as to benefit others. A theme that underlies the entire book is the advocacy of direct instruction in social skills,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns, Blacks
Harris, Dean A., Ed. – 1995
Authors of color share their thoughts on diversity, difference, pluralism, privilege, and ethnicity in essays that are meant to speak to the attempt by white scholars to reserve to themselves the power to define these terms. Each writer represented in this collection is attempting to validate a marginalized perspective and its corollary arguments…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Dworkin, Sari H., Ed.; Gutierrez, Fernando J., Ed. – 1992
In the past decade, assisting gay and lesbian clients with the coming out process, helping clients to manage stigmatized identities, and assisting counselors in removing their homophobic attitudes were the first priorities in dealing with homosexuality. This book outlines some of the issues that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals must deal with beyond…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bisexuality, Blacks, Counseling Effectiveness
Kominski, Robert; Adams, Andrea – Current Population Reports, 1994
This report contains data on the educational attainment of persons in the United States from the Current Population Surveys conducted by the Bureau of the Census in March 1992 and 1993. Summary data on educational attainment by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin are shown for both years in Table 1. Other detailed data are shown for 1993 in tables…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Holmes, Robyn M. – 1995
Young children's knowledge of race and ethnicity is conveyed in their own terms, and how this knowledge affects their social relationships and ideas about procreation is explored. Participant observation, informal conversations, and collecting children's artwork were used to build a picture of race through the eyes of the kindergarten child.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Cultural Awareness
Christensen, Kathee M., Ed.; Delgado, Gilbert L., Ed. – 1993
This book considers, from both educational and cultural perspectives, the needs of children with deafness from African American, American Indian, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Island families. The text calls for a child-centered curriculum based on a fundamental acceptance of differences in communication and interpretation. Section I presents the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, Cultural Differences
Rogler, LLoyd H. – 1984
A sociological field study of the development of a Puerto Rican community organization in an American city (Maplewood, New Jersey), this book describes what happens when an ethnic minority attempts to attain a voice in the affairs of an affluent city. Chapter 1 discusses the study's purpose. Chapters 2 to 11 narrate, from the members' viewpoint…
Descriptors: Activism, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Leaders
Nieto, Sonia – 1999
This book focuses on ways teachers can modify their teaching in order to increase the academic achievement of students from the racial and ethnic groups that are experiencing massive failure in U.S. schools, and consequently in society. Modifying instruction to improve the academic achievement of African American and Latino students will benefit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Disadvantaged Youth
Massey, Douglas S.; Charles, Camille Z.; Lundy, Garvey F.; Fischer, Mary J. – Princeton University Press, 2006
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In "The Shape of the River," William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Socioeconomic Background, Minority Group Students, Underachievement
Lindgren, Merri V., Ed. – 1991
This book expands on presentations made at a conference to provide a resource for teachers, librarians, educators, and others with an interest in cultural substance in literature. "Multicultural" is used to refer to people of color, including African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanics. The following selections…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Asian Americans, Bibliographies
Totten, Herman L.; And Others – 1996
This annotated bibliography of multicultural literature for secondary students is designed to help librarians broaden and diversify their print and video collections with materials written both for and about African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. The materials included are intended for middle, junior high,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Americans
Cockcroft, James D. – 1995
Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Central Americans, and South Americans, all so-called "Hispanics," or "Latinos," have brought their working hands and all of their skills and talents to the United States. They have come from many places to become the United States' fastest growing minority group. By the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Rights, Cubans, Dominicans
Lopez, Tiffany Ana – 1993
This is a collection of 20 stories that focus specifically on the experience of growing up Chicana/o. A foreword by Rudolfo Anaya provides background on the development of Chicano literature. The stories are presented in four sections that explore the themes of heritage and actual and metaphorical boundaries, the importance of grandparents and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anthologies, Children, Early Experience
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