This section includes materials related to specific ethnic and/or cultural groups, as well as materials which more broadly address issues of diversity of multiculturalism. As there is a rapidly expanding amount of literature in this area, this bibliography only contains a sampling of that information.
TITLE: Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives
AUTHORS: Banks, J., & McGee Banks, C. A. (Eds.)
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1989
Allyn and Bacon"A key goal of multicultural education is to change schools so that all students have an equal chance to achieve." Despite increasing cultural diversity in our classrooms, sensitivity to this diversity is not generally present in our educational system. This book is intended for pre-service teachers as an overview of comprehensive multicultural education and focuses specifically on developing a sensitivity in the classroom to ethnic, gender, and disability variation in students. Chapters include: the concept and history of multicultural education, social class and religion, gender, ethnicity and language, exceptionality, and school reform--including parental involvement.
160 Gould Street
Needham Heights, MA 02194-2310
TITLE: Double discrimination: Issues and services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities
AUTHORS: Baxter, C., Poonia, K., Ward, L., & Nadirshaw, Z.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1990
King's Fund Central & the Commission for Racial EqualityWe live in a multicultural society and yet most of the key literature on developing services for people with learning difficulties has ignored this fact. Most national, regional and local plans for service development in this area show a similarly "colour blind" approach. The particular experiences, circumstances and needs of black and ethnic minority children and adults with learning difficulties and their families are ignored, or assumed (often incorrectly) to be the same as those of their white peers. While the authors make it clear this handbook is not a blueprint for the creation of antiracist services, it is intended to help service providers in infant, pre-school, school, adult, and older person's services for persons with learning difficulties and their families work toward more antiracist services. Included are stories from parents and persons with disabilities, cartoons, and photographs that are both thoughtful, sensitive, and celebratory of persons with learning difficulties of minority backgrounds.
Bailey Distribution Ltd., Dept. KFP
Learoyd Road, Mountfield Industrial Estate
New Romney, Kent TN28 8XU
ENGLAND
TITLE: A bibliography of selected resources on cultural diversity: For parents
and professionals working with young children who have, or are at risk
for, disabilities
AUTHOR: Edmunds, P. T.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION:
PACER CenterThis is a bibliography of resources on cultural diversity. The first section is more general information including printed and audiovisual materials as well as some organizations. The second section offers information on selected cultural/ethnic populations (specifically, Asian/Pacific Islander, African American, Hispanic and American Indian).
4826 Chicago Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55417-1055
TITLE: Demographics and cultural diversity in the 1990s: Implications for
services to young children with special needs
AUTHORS: Edmunds, P., Martinson, S. A., & Goldberg, P. F.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1990
PACER CenterThis 10-page booklet offers a current look at the changing demographics across this country of children of color who are at risk for disabilities. It begins with a look at why we need to talk about multiculturalism and goes on to discuss the impact of poverty on people of color relating specifically to preschool age children. The booklet provides brief interviews with several people working in the field who are attempting to make their systems more responsive to multiculturalism. It also provides further resources on the areas discussed.
4826 Chicago Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55417
TITLE: IMPACT: Feature issue on supporting diversity
AUTHORS: Horton, B., McBridge, M., & Shoultz, B. (Eds.)
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1996
The focus of this issue of IMPACT is on services for persons with developmental disabilities that support the whole person by acknowledging, respecting, and incorporating aspects of identity such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, and class. This issue is about learning from people how to best serve them, rather than making assumptions about what they need or expecting them to fit into a certain system or model. It is about asking tough questions regarding the best ways to meet the needs of culturally diverse persons with developmental disabilities and their families, and being willing to hear a variety of answers, some of which are critical of the ways things are currently done. It is about the role of cultural communities in meeting the needs of persons with disabilities. And it is about the successes being experienced in innovative programs across the country.
TITLE: Disability and culture
AUTHORS: Ingstad, B., & Whyte, S. R. (Eds.)
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1995
Traditionally, the concept of disability has been studied from a medical or sociological perspective. Consequently, few examinations of the effects of culture on our understanding of disability have taken place. Disability and culture is an edited collection of essays on the relationship between disability and culture. Essays are based, for the most part, on participant-observation or interview studies in a large variety of countries, such as, Borneo, Turkey, Sweden, and Nicaragua. Insightful and careful observations and analysis by the authors help the reader both to reframe disability in terms of social processes and from a global, multicultural perspective and to explore the significance of disability in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about humanity and personhood.
TITLE: American Indian cultural perspectives on disability
AUTHORS: Joe, J. R., & Miller, D.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1987
Native American Research and Training CenterThis monograph offers insight into the cultural dimension of disability specifically related to the American Indians. It looks at some common perceptions of disability and discusses the Indian and non-Indian traditions and approaches regarding attitudes toward disability, examining differences and broader cultural values. It also offers specific examples of where cultural differences and misunderstandings have arisen when the Indian becomes a client in the non-Indian service world as well as recommendations to providing better understanding and services. Also discussed is the bi-cultural nature of Indian culture today and a brief historical insight as to how this occurred.
University of Arizona
1642 East Helen
Tucson, AZ 85719
TITLE: Developing cross-cultural competence: A guide for working with young children and their families
AUTHORS: Lynch, E. W., & Hanson, M. J.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1992
This book first discusses issues of ethnic, cultural, and language diversity, providing insight into concepts of cultural identity and cultural considerations for interventionists which include self-awareness, awareness and understanding, as well as developing communication. All of these areas contribute to working toward what they call a culturally competent system. The book then looks at families from a variety of cultural backgrounds including African, Asian, Native, European, Latino, Native Hawaiian, Middle Eastern and Filipino.
TITLE: Ethnic families in America (3rd ed.)
AUTHORS: Mindel, C. H., Habenstein, R. W., & Wright, R., Jr. (Eds.)
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1988
Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.The growing interest in ensuring that services are responsive to the culturally and ethnically diverse groups that make up most communities has produced books and articles that attempt to increase understanding. The most difficult issue such attempts face is that of avoiding further stereotyping of specific groups. This book contains chapters on European (Polish American, Catholic Irish American, Greek American, Italian American), Hispanic (Mexican American, Cuban American, Puerto Rican American), Asian (Korean American, Chinese American, Japanese American, Vietnamese American), historically subjugated (Black American, Native American), and socioreligious (Amish, Jewish American, Arab American, and Mormon) "ethnic" minority families. A good reference source, this book sometimes falls into the trap of perpetuating stereotypes but at other times offers valuable information. For information on any one minority group, this book should be read along with other references (given at end of each chapter) rather than as a sole information source. For insights on the importance of recognizing and affirming diversity, the book provides a valuable overview.
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY 10017
TITLE: "I'm not Indian anymore": The challenge of providing culturally sensitive services to American Indians
AUTHOR: O'Connor, S.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1993
In J. A. Racino, P. Walker, S. O'Connor, & S. J. Taylor (Eds.), Housing, support, and community: Choices and strategies for adults with disabilities (pp. 313-331). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.This chapter describes services provided to the Lakota at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota through Southern Hills Developmental Services. Issues of culture and service provision are discussed, including ways of providing services on the reservation so people are not forced to move away to find the services they need. Traditionally, the service system has disregarded people's cultural identity. As an alternative, this chapter highlights the ways in which Southern Hills Developmental Services attempts to respect and support people's culture.
TITLE: Multiculturalism and disability: A collection of resources
AUTHOR: O'Connor, S.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1993
Part I of this resource packet is an attempt to place disability within the larger context of multiculturalism. By placing disability within this context, the article explores issues of discrimination that have faced many people because of race, gender, ethnicity, class, age, and disability, to name a few, and the similarities that exist with such experiences. Part II offers annotations of books, articles, materials, and organizations that are dealing with issues of multiculturalism and disability as well as some that deal more specifically with issues such as poverty or ethnicity.
TITLE: Issues in culturally competent services delivery: An annotated bibliography
AUTHORS: Rider, M. E., & Mason, J. L.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1990
Research and Training Center on Family SupportThis annotated bibliography was developed as part of the Minority Cultural Initiative Project to help explore the issue of culturally competent service delivery to children and youth with emotional disabilities and their families. The review was limited to contemporary perspectives spanning the last three decades and covering communities or groups of color within the United States. It is an attempt to present theoretical perspectives regarding culturally appropriate service delivery and to show practical applications of theory and research. The document is divided into five sections--one that addresses multicultural issues and four that address culturally specific issues.
and Children's Mental Health
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
TITLE: Intellectual disabilities in the Nordic welfare states
AUTHORS: Tossebro, J., Gustavsson, A., & Dyrrendahl, G (Eds.)
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1996
Hoyskole ForlagetIn the last ten years the Nordic countries have undergone extensive change in the policies toward people with disabilities. During this time, consequently, the everyday lives of these people have also changed. Written for both international and Nordic audiences, Intellectual disabilities in the Nordic welfare states analyzes the services available and changes in this to people with labels of intellectual disabilities within the Nordic welfare states--Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
Norwegian Academic Press
Postboks 2170 Posebeyen
Dronningensgt
N-4602 Kristiansand S.
NORWAY
TITLE: Community living: A multicultural perspective
AUTHORS: Traustadottir, R., Lutfiyya, Z. M., & Shoultz, B.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1994
In M. F. Hayden & B. H. Abery (Eds.), Challenges for a service system in transition: Ensuring quality community experiences for persons with developmental disabilities (pp. 405-426). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.This chapter explores multiculturalism as it applies to the field of developmental disabilities. The first section introduces the concept of multiculturalism. Subsequent sections examine how gender, class, and race influence people with disabilities and the services they receive. These dimensions form a starting point for unraveling and mapping out the complex issues that influence service delivery to persons with disabilities, as well as for directing policymakers and service providers in a direction that does not require individuals to conform to the customs and assumptions of the dominant culture.
TITLE: Disability and diversity: New leadership for a new era
AUTHORS: Walker, S., Turner, K. A., Haile-Michael, M., Vincent, A., & Miles, M. D.
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 1995
President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities"Minority persons with disabilities are important in the struggle for the full equality and empowerment of people with disabilities. Minority persons with disabilities must be able to develop and exemplify leadership and advocacy skills." Yet, despite statements such as this a person with a disability and who also comes from a minority background continues to suffer a double discrimination in society. Disability and diversity: New leadership for a new era is an examination by advocates, policy makers, government department representatives, and university researchers of the combined handicaps of what it is to have a disability and to be of a minority background in America. Topics examined include: policy and practice--from then to now, rehabilitation and diversity--both in counseling clients and in training counselors, provision of school and adult services in manners that take into account cultural diversity, and strategies for empowerment for persons with disabilities of minority backgrounds.
Howard University
Research and Training Center for Access to
Rehabilitation and Economic Opportunity
2900 Van Ness Street, N.W.
Holy Cross Hall, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
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