Multicultural geographies
Subtitle: the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States
By: edited by   John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai
Series: A Global Academic Publishing book
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781438436821
Subjects: Race relations; Cultural pluralism; Ethnic relations; Immigrants; Social change; Minorities; Study and teaching; Human geography; Social conditions; Multicultural education; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multiculturalism and multicultural education in the United States : the contributory role of geography / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier; title: Culture, cultural landscapes, and the historical contexts for economic expansion, immigration, and group settlements in the United States / John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai; title: U.S. Black geographies; title: Black American geographies : the historical and contemporary distributions of African Americans / Eugene Tettey-Fio; title: The plight of African Americans in Michigan : residential segregation, and predictable outcomes in mortgage lending and educational achievement / Joe T. Darden; title: Predatory lending and race : a case study of a Washington, D.C. lender / David H. Kaplan; title: Low birth weight and the contribution of residential segregation, New York City, 2000 / Sue C. Grady; title: U.S. Asian geographies; title: Asians in America : some historical and contemporary patterns / John W. Frazier; title: What color is segregation? : changing spatial segregation of Asians : 1980-2000 / David W. S. Wong; title: From the ghetto to the invisiburb : shifting patterns of immigrant settlement in contemporary America / Emily Skop and Wei Li; title: Refugee resettlement in Utica, New York : opportunities and issues for community development / Ellen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg; title: U.S. Latino geographies; title: Changing Latino geographies in the United States / Mark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio; title: Determinants of Latino migration to Allentown, PA / Mark E. Reisinger; title: Latino landscapes and Latino-Black districts : a study of Allentown, PA / Eugene Tettey-Fio; title: Diversity comes to a small city : the case of Binghamton, NY / Suzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. Frazier; title: Methods of racial/ethnic data portrayal and analysis; title: Reading and mapping America's changing ethnic geomorphologies and palimpsest geographies / Stanley D. Brunn; title: The use of a 3-D mapping technique to portray racial and ethnic change / Lucius S. Willis; title: A comparison of traditional and spatial measures of segregation : some empirical findings / David W.S. Wong; title: Using geo-data techniques to analyze environmental health inequities in minority; title: neighborhoods : the case of toxic exposures and low birth weights / Florence M. Margai; title: Summation; title: Summary and conclusions / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier.