Increasing multicultural understanding
Subtitle: a comprehensive model
By: Don C. Locke.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Multicultural aspects of counseling series ;; 1
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Minorities -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Race relations
Description: A best-seller in the first edition, Increasing Multicultural Understanding, Second Edition still presents its classic framework for critical observation with 10 elements, including history of oppression, religious practices, family structure, degree of acculturation, poverty, language and the arts, racism and prejudice, sociopolitical factors, child-rearing practices, and values and attitudes.

Two new chapters focus on Muslims and Jews in America, while chapters on such specific groups as African Americans, Japanese Americans, Native American Indians, Vietnamese in the United States, and the Old Order Amish have been thoughtfully updated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A model for multicultural understanding; title: African Americans; title: Old Order Amish; title: Native American Indians; title: Chinese Americans; title: Japanese Americans; title: Korean Americans; title: Vietnamese in the United States; title: Mexican Americans; title: Puerto Rican Americans; title: Jewishness in America; title: Muslims in the United States; title: Epilogue.