Cultural Conflict & Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9781850007623 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 184 str.

Enrique T. Trueba; &. K. Trueba; Henry T. Trueba

Opis

This study looks at the history and plight of the Hmong and the way in which such a minority fits into the American dream. More specifically the book examines the problems faced by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, in East Central California.

Spis treści

Culture conflict and the American dream; ethnohistory of the Hmong people; the Hmong at La Playa; becoming American through schooling; seven "learning disabled" Indochinese - institutional approach to children facing culture conflict; culture and minority achievement - implications for research and instructional practice.

O autorze

Henry T. Trueba, Lila Jacobs, Elizabeth Kirton