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Schwartz, Lita Linzer; Isser, Natalie – 1983
Given the assumption that children learn societal values in schools, textbooks and teaching manuals were reviewed to determine their effects on immigrant and minority-group children. The study was limited in three ways: (1) only primary through eighth-grade materials were reviewed; (2) only the immigration period (1880-1920), the post war period…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, Cultural Isolation, Cultural Pluralism
Sowell, Thomas, Ed.; Collins, Lynn D., Ed. – 1978
The essays in this volume focus on the historical and social evolution of six American ethnic groups. Thomas Sowell discusses similarities and differences in the experiences of antebellum "free persons of color," emancipated slaves and their descendants, and West Indian immigrants, and examines trends in the socioeconomic status of black…
Descriptors: American History, Blacks, Chinese Americans, Cultural Influences