ABSTRACT
Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries, rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development, but a new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology as well. It was also one of the best attempts to develop guidelines for building models of development that are multicultural in perspective, thus challenging scholars across the behavioral sciences to give more credence to the impact of culture on development and socialization in their respective fields of work.
A true classic, Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development will remain an essential resource for any scholar who is interested in minority child development and engages in cross-cultural research and multidisciplinary methodologies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|40 pages
Independence and Interdependence as Developmental Scripts
part 1|91 pages
American Roots
chapter 3|32 pages
Socializing Young Children in Mexican-American Families
chapter 4|19 pages
Intergroup Differences Among Native Americans in Socialization and Child Cognition
chapter 6|18 pages
From Natal Culture to School Culture to Dominant Society Culture
part 2|91 pages
African Roots
part 3|135 pages
Asian Roots
chapter 15|7 pages
Moving Away From Stereotypes and Preconceptions
chapter 16|28 pages
East-Asian Academic Success in the United States
chapter 17|13 pages
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Cognitive Socialization of Asian-Originated Children
part 4|45 pages
Concluding Perspectives