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Ross, E. Wayne, Ed.; Pang, Valerie Ooka, Ed. – Praeger, 2006
This book moves beyond traditional thinking and approaches to multicultural education to more accurately reflect the dramatically changing circumstances faced by North American schools in an age of globalization. The volumes address ways in which race and ethnicity affect learning across the life span, at all levels of formal education as well as…
Descriptors: Race, Teaching Methods, Ethnicity, Multicultural Education
Hing, Bill Ong, Ed.; Lee, Ronald, Ed. – 1996
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…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Demography, Economic Factors
Bloch, Marianne N., Ed.; Kennedy, Devorah, Ed.; Lightfoot, Theodora, Ed.; Weyenberg, Dar, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
In this collection, the contributors look at the current spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way these discourses, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Young Children, Jews
Shade, Barbara J. Robinson, Ed. – 1997
Many students of color are not performing to their maximum potential within the current school setting, and examinations of this problem suggest significant differences between student and teacher perceptions of how one becomes educated. The underlying assumptions of this book are that culture, through the mediation of cognitive style, determines…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Black Culture
Schuyler, Robert L., Ed. – 1980
This monograph contains fourteen articles dealing with archaeological studies on Black and Asian ethnic groups in the United States. Papers on Afro-American culture history include: (1) "Race and Class on Antebellum Plantations," by John Solomon Otto; (2) "Looking for the 'Afro' in Colono-Indian Pottery," by Leland Ferguson; (3) a study of "Black…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Asian Americans, Black Culture, Black History
Wijeyesinghe, Charmaine L., Ed.; Jackson, Bailey W., III, Ed. – 2001
This book presents a collection of essays on racial identity development in a variety of racial populations, focusing on the application of racial identity development theories and their expansion beyond their original borders. The 10 chapters are (1) "Black Identity Development: Further Analysis and Elaboration" (Bailey W. Jackson III);…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Conflict Resolution
Salett, Elizabeth Pathy, Ed.; Koslow, Diane R., Ed. – 1994
The impact that race and ethnicity have on an individual's identity development in the United States are explored through the theoretical framework, issues of dominance, identity development, and questions of biraciality. The following chapters address these issues: (1) "Identity, Self, and Individualism in a Multicultural Perspective"…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural Awareness
Hiura, Arnold T.; Sumida, Stephen H. – 1979
This annotated bibllography focuses on the drama, prose fiction, and poetry of people of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino descent in Hawaii. All works cited were written in English, between the 1920s and 1970, with the exception of poems translated into English by their authors. The bibliography begins with an overview of the cultural and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Anthologies, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans
Cooke, John, Ed. – 1979
This pamphlet contains several essays on the culture and ethnic groups of New Orleans, Louisiana. Included are: (11 a discussion by Joseph Logsdon on the uniqueness of New Orleans culture, marked by its cuisine, interethnic mixtures, and its politics; (2) an article on theories of ethnicity and neo ethnicity, by Joseph V. Guillotte, III; (3) a…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Cubans, Cultural Influences
Swartz, Leslie, Ed.; Warner, Linda, Ed.; Grossman, David L., Ed. – 1998
This publication presents a sampling of the writings of participants in the Intersections Project, a professional development program to bridge gap between multicultural and global education for urban schools that involved four participating entities, each with a local project that focused on Asia and Asian Americans. The project was specifically…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian Studies, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
Rumbaut, Ruben G., Ed.; Portes, Alejandro, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers by leading scholars in immigration studies shows how the children of immigrants in diverse groups are faring and assimilating in the United States. The 10 papers are (1) "Introduction--Ethnogenesis: Coming of Age in Immigrant America" (Ruben G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes); (2) "The Demographic Diversity…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cubans, Cultural Differences
Park, Clara C., Ed.; Goodwin, A. Lin, Ed.; Lee, Stacey J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2003
This anthology is the second volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. The series intends to be a national voice for the education of Asian and…
Descriptors: Pacific Americans, Asian American Students, Educational Research, Ethnicity
Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem, Lucy, Ed.; Halper, Joel Martin, Ed. – 1989
This publication provides autobiographical essays by students originally from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, all of whom arrived in the United States as refugees between 1975 and 1982. Following an introduction is an initial essay, "Becoming a Refugee, Being a Refugee, Ceasing To Be a Refugee," by L. Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem. The student essays are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Autobiographies, Cambodians
Hugenberg, Lawrence W., Ed. – 1990
This annual collection contains essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course, grading in the basic communication course, evaluating the basic communication course, and the "state" of the basic communication course. Papers in the collection include: "The Future of the Basic Course" (Judy C. Pearson and Paul…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cognitive Style, Communication Apprehension, Grading
Costantino, Toni, Ed. – 1979
This collection of essays and articles is meant to provide a general introduction to the different issues and concerns that face women from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. Part I of this anthology addresses general issues confronting minority women. Following sections focus on individual groups of women: Native Americans, Hispanics,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks, Equal Education
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