Uses a content analysis of the available treatment literature to generate guidelines for use in training and evaluating culturally competent therapists. Guidelines include: use family therapy; act as advocate for the family; assess immigration experience; assess acculturation; respect father; interview family subsystems separately; do not force…

Presents the story of a Nicaraguan immigrant who came to America as a child in 1955, describing his experiences moving through an English-speaking school system that did not make accommodations for his linguistic and cultural minority needs. The paper discusses bilingual education and explains that educators, researchers, and policymakers must…

Examines how 1990 state elderly populations have been affected by "new elderly births" (a state's population, ages 55-59 in 1985, which survived to ages 60-64 in 1990) as well as by migration components. During the 1985-90 period, elderly births exerted a greater impact than migration on elderly gains and demographic composition for all…

Describes a unified, statewide effort to increase outreach activities targeted to ethnic minority families with a demented relative. Provides data demonstrating the effectiveness of these programs. (SNR)

Analyzed factors associated with being non-violent and constructing a non-violent, prosocial masculine identity. Subjects were African-American and Hispanic adolescent males in two low-income Chicago neighborhoods. Found several factors associated with being non-violent, including the ability to draw lessons from past experiences and have a…

Increasing gang membership among Mexican-American adolescents is rooted in a cultural context and reflects a desperate attempt to gain some control over barrio life marked by low employment, poverty, and discrimination. Discusses the decision-making process involved, and recommends three ways schools can reframe their views towards these students,…

Characteristics of hired farmworkers have changed little during the 1990s. These workers continue to earn about 58 percent as much as all wage and salary workers. Data tables and figures present characteristics of farmworkers and all workers: age, gender, race, educational attainment, citizenship, region, earnings, and occupations. (TD)

Suggests that immigrant Latino parents have an ethnotheory of child development that emphasizes being part of a group, and that this ethnotheory conflicts with teachers' views focusing on the development of individual potential. Analyzes three dialogues from parent-teacher conferences to illustrate parent-teacher cooperation or discord in the…

The Walt Disney Company's shift in ideology from conservatism to liberal multiculturalism is examined, focusing on corporate history, Disney's hegemonic dealings with Latin American and U.S. Hispanic communities, and Disney's role as cultural producer and facilitator of multiculturalism. Analysis of The Lion King points out its contributions to…

Analysis of survey data on over 2,700 Puerto Rican mothers and infants living in the mainland United States examined the behavior of nonresident, cohabiting, and married fathers in terms of both financial contributions and participation in child care. The results highlight the critical role of employment in father's involvement. (Contains 42…

Examines perceptions that African Americans must compete with Hispanics for faculty and administrative positions at Arizona State University. School officials deny replacing African American employees with Hispanics, suggesting that isolated incidents might make people believe this is occurring. Data are provided on Hispanic higher education…

A Puerto Rican scholar describes his second-grade experiences as a newcomer to the U.S. mainland: learning English required forgetting Spanish, and this "forgetting" was a requirement for successful inclusion into a new culture. Language has regulatory power to set up conditions for belonging and exclusion, but resistance to the hegemony…

Presents a study examining whether confidence in the correctness of one's perceptions of normative pressure to use a condom influences the correspondence between those perceptions and intentions to perform the behavior. Finds that perceptions of normative pressure strongly predicted their intentions to use condoms when there was extreme normative…

Study seeks to identify trajectories of grade changes in a sample of adolescents following their entrance into junior high and to examine differences in these trajectories by gender and ethnicity. Three patterns were observed: "sliders," (characteristic of Anglos), "steadies," (characteristic of Blacks), and "rebounders," (characteristic of…

Examines instructional practices organized around the funds of knowledge that children bring to the classroom, attempting to debunk the cultural deficit perspective, which disregards the cognitive and linguistic schema that students already have in place. Describes how these instructional practices transformed the literacy development of one…