Eurocentric educational philosophy has functioned as an anticipatory regime creating racial, economic, historical, sociopolitical, and intellectual separation and imposing dominant knowledge systems. In 2021, American and Hispanic empires rejected organic movements from scholars and academic activists for embracing a vision of the world outside…

Educational innovations with emerging technologies often disregard the potential historical and cultural damage of those technologies, which further disenfranchises Indigenous communities from a fruitful relationship with them. This is especially true for narrative-based digital technologies, because storytelling is held as a sacred practice of…

Medical and science researchers continue to try to get at the root cause of racial and ethnic health disparities. Why are advanced breast cancer rates so much higher among certain populations, particularly African-American women? Why are colon cancer rates significantly higher among Native Americans? Years of research have yielded many theories…

This brief provides an overview of three federal laws that address native-language education and illustrates how these federal laws produce different results when coupled with state laws and other regional circumstances. For the purposes of this brief, native-language education refers to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and…

This paper analyzes whether ethnocentric curricula, defined as courses that focus exclusively on particular racial/ethnic groups, are more prevalent at minority-serving colleges than at mainstream institutions. Using original curricular data for a sample of tribal, Black, Hispanic, and mainstream colleges, the author found that ethnocentric…

The roots and development of the Spanish language are outlined, and Columbus' discovery of Puerto Rico and meetings with the Indian inhabitants are described. Mixed with the native language and spoken by the native people, it has evolved into the rich idiom spoken in Puerto Rico today. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

The approach of this publication to the study of minority cultures is through an introduction to the literature of certain minority groups in the United States: native Americans, black Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Puerto Ricans. It is intended primarily as a guide for libraries, library school students, library schools, other educators, and…

An adjunct to the articles contained in the same issue on ethnic groups, this bibliography is designed to assist readers, particularly counselors, in expanding their knowledge of such groups through readings by Chicanos, Indians and Puerto Ricans. (CJ)

As noted in the Preface, social scientists are entering a period of shared realization that the United States is in a crucial period of transition. "Trans-action" magazine, a pioneer in social programs for changing the society, has dedicated itself for 7 years to the task of reporting the strains and conflicts within the American system and has…

This is one of a series of curriculum guides designed to assist bilingual teachers to provide a coordinated program of studies for students in the Connecticut Migratory Children's Program and for any other students whose native language is Spanish. It is felt that an effort should be made to discover the skill level at which a child is…

Reports 1990 SAT scores for Blacks, women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Americans, and compares them with 1989 and 1976 scores. National scores show a slight decline this year, while scores for Blacks are unchanged and scores for Asian Americans and Native Americans show gains. (DM)

This collection of essays deals with those ethnic minority groups which can be classified as being among the socially disadvantaged in America. Here, the socially disadvantaged are described as persons or groups whose chances for the complete maximization of their talents or potentials are limited by societal factors related to poverty and/or…

This document reports the status of four minority groups and the availability of Ford Foundation graduate fellowships for the Ph.D. candidate. The four minority groups include Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians. Emphasis is placed on the background of minorities and graduate degrees, openings to opportunity, advanced study…

This annotated bibliography was designed to acquaint educators with ERIC documents which provide information on teaching minority group children. It is divided into five sections: the first contains studies of the problems of educating minority groups in general, and the other four deal separatively with teaching American Indians,…

An emerging sense of heritage is being proudly expressed by minorities who dispute the position that they should conform to a majority model of social behavior and belief. (Editor)