Voices of Diversity Multi-Culturalism in America /

• Main Author: Sengstock, Mary C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Applied psychology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89666-3

Todays world involves increased contact among people from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, creating problems for many people. This book views diversity through the eyes of the children of diversity: the offspring of "mixed" marriages between different races, religions, or national...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Multi-Culturalism and American Families in the 21st Century
• A Brief History of American Views of Multi-Culturalism Throughout its History
• American Multi-Culturalism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
• Sources of Multi-Culturalism in Families
• Section II: Hearing the Voices of Descendants from Culturally Diverse Families
• Growing up Painful
• Choosing a Culture and the Tyranny of Ethnic and Racial Groups
• It Takes a Village
• Successful Multi-Cultural Families
• Section III: Applying Our Knowledge
• Policy Implications of Multi-Cultural Families
• Helping Families Improve the Socialization Environment for Their Children
• Making Social Institutions More Hospitable to Multi-Culturalism.