Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Contributors: Guillermo Bernal (Editor); Joseph E. Trimble (Editor); Ann Kathleen Burlew (Editor); Frederick T. L. Leong (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; Sage Publications
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780761919650
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Sociology; Minorities; Discrimination & Racism; Social Science; Psychology; Social Psychology; Minority Studies - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science-Minority Studies - General; United States; Ethnopsychology
First sentence: The history of ethnic minority psychology in the United States is characterized by four major themes: 1. the promulgation of theories and data that were used by psychologists and others to support notions of scientific racism-especially as these relate to the legitimacy of White advantage/superiority and the inferiority, exploitation, discrimination, and dispossession of U.S. peoples of color;