Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Volume #9 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the Salishan tribes of the coast, The Chimakum and the Quilliute, The Willapa.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies,...

Volume #8 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Nez Perces, Wallawalla, Umatilla, Cayuse, The Chinookan tribes.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and...

Volume #18 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Chipewyan, The Western Woods Cree, The Sarsi.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative...

Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to determine the provenance of Indigenous Ancestral Remains in repatriation claims and processes.

This comprehensive textbook prepares early childhood educators to effectively work with and support young children (ages 0-8) with diverse languages, cultures, and learning needs. With a multipurpose, multilevel format, this dynamic resource focuses on...

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students' retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority. Through this retrospective...

Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and...

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.

This book rethinks approaches to social work practice with diverse racial and ethnic communities, who needs are often not met by providers who are not fully prepared to work with them. This book was first published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic...

Higher Education and First-Generation Students offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book contends that first-generation students are isolated and marginalized on many...

In The Future of Diversity, distinguished academic leaders - heads of universities and foundations as well as faculty with valuable research and personal experience - discuss the next stage in the pursuit of democratic diversity and excellence on our...

This book examines and analyzes Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America. It shows that America's cultural homogeneity, which is based on "whiteness," has important consequences for racialized ethnic groups in America...

The way many secondary schools are structured limits the ability of immigrant English Learners to achieve academically and develop social networks, often resulting in hyper-segregated learning experiences. This book explores the journey of a group of...

Class, Culture and Social Change challenges the notion of the "death of the working class." The author examines a number of key issues for working-class studies: the idea of the "death" of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance...

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as...

This book discusses the meaning and practice of British community cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas and the British government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims.

In this era of recognition and reconciliation in settler societies indigenous peoples are laying claims to tribunals, courts and governments and reclaiming extensive territories and resource rights, in some cases even political sovereignty. But,...

This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage. It situates its analysis of ethnic minority young...

From the co-author of "Lakota Woman," which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men.

"The Other Slavery is nothing short of an epic recalibration of American history, one that's long overdue...In addition to his skills as a historian and an investigator, Résendez is a skilled storyteller with a truly remarkable subject...

Winner of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA)'s inaugural PESA Book Awards in 2015, and The University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize for Education 2014-15.Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education explores the complex interface that...

This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its...

Over the past few years bilingualism has come to be seen not as a hinderance to assimiliation but as an asset which, properly nurtured, will benefit children's linguistic awareness, cultural sensitivity and cognitive functioning. Bilingualism in the...

Volume #7 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Yakima, The Klickitat, Salishan tribes of the interior, The Kutenai.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies,...

Volume #6 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Piegan, The Cheyenne, The Arapaho.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.

Volume #4 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Apsaroke, or Crows, The Hidatsa.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.

Volume #5 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Mandan, The Arikara, The Atsina.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.

Volume #2 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Pima, The Papago, The Qahatika, The Mohave, The Yuma, The Maricopa, The Walapai, Havasupai, The Apache Mohave, or Yavapai.  The subject areas covered on...

Volume #3 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin.  The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative...

There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications. Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of the...

Focusing on the lives of first and second generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age, who offend or have offended, and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines...

Identity and Belonging amongst Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, within family and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media.

This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the volume: Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and...

Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their...

This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii’s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a...

Carl Maxey was, in his own words, “a guy who started from scratch - black scratch.” He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other “colored” orphan...

Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history. His efforts helped...

2011 Winner of the Hal K. Rothman Award for the Best Book on Western Environmental History2010 Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize and the Caroline Bancroft Honor Prize2009 Winner of the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award sponsored by the Historical...

Yup'ik elders of southwest Alaska recall, “Our ancestors were never heavy with a tool kit.” They carried in their minds what they needed to live rich lives in the harsh environment of the Bering Sea coast. Frank Andrew, Sr. (1917-2006), was...

This book represents a new vista, looking past the days when there were two distinct groups-those who were studied and those who studied them. This history of the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla people had its beginnings in October 2000, when elders...