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Baxter, Kathleen – School Library Journal, 2004
Stories about people treated unfairly stir something deep in the psyche. This article briefly discusses three stories that involve people being treated unfairly: (1) Chris Crowe's Getting Away with Murder: The Tree Story' of the Emmett Till Case; (2) Michael Cooper's Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp; and (3) Deborah…
Descriptors: Books, Nonfiction, Reading Materials, Children
Ogawa, Masato – International Journal of Social Education, 2004
The purpose of this study is to analyze the treatment of Japanese-American internment during World War II in high school United States history textbooks. Four reasons highlight the selection of this topic for study. First, this historical event was selected because a little over a year ago was the 60th anniversary of President Franklin D.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, National Security
Brandon, Paul R.; And Others – 1985
The document first provides a review of recent literature on sex differences in mathematics achievement. From national and international studies, achievement trends across the grades, how achievement varies according to the skills or knowledge assessed, and the mathematical ability of high-ability students are each summarized. Then studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity
Kim, Won Yong – 1985
Focusing on the general consumption pattern of ethnic newspapers by Asian-Americans and the underlying attributes of that consumption, a study surveyed 406 randomly selected Asian-Americans (Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos) in the Los Angeles area. The data were analyzed in terms of developmental trends of consumption by years of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Ethnic Studies
Inn, Agnes M. S. – Soc Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, Elementary Education, Group Unity
Moy, Peter – 1978
The resources in this bibliography are predominantly written from an Asian American point of view. They were compiled in an attempt to counter misconceptions and "faulty scholarship" that has prevailed in Asian American studies. The bibliography is divided into six areas. Each section is prefaced by a brief historical and contemporary perspective…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Information Sources
Lyman, Stanford M. – 1977
Articles, essays, and book reviews on Asian Americans are included in this anthology. The articles focus on some of the following topics: (1) the Chinese diaspora in America from 1850 to 1943, (2) the significance of Asians in American society, (3) the Chinese on the urban frontier, (4) marriage and the family among Chinese immigrants to America…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Asian Americans, Book Reviews, Chinese Americans
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Asamen, Joy K.; Berry, Gordon L. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 1987
Examined perceived prejudice, self-concept, and alienation in 63 Japanese-American and 44 Chinese-American college students. Found no significant correlations for Chinese-Americans between perceived prejudice and self-concept; Japanese-Americans showed a significant, negative relationship between prejudice and self-concept. Chinese-Americans had…
Descriptors: Alienation, Bias, Chinese Americans, College Students
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Hayasaka, Philip – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1973
The experience of Asians in America had as its reality exclusion, oppression, survival, and racism. (DM)
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Civil Rights, Filipino Americans, Government Role
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Ayabe, Harold I.; Santo, Susan – Journal of Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Concept Formation, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
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Maykovich, Minako Kurokawa – Human Relations, 1972
Purpose of this paper was to compare the racial images of whites, blacks, and certain Yellows" (Japanese-Americans) as mutually perceived, and differentially perceived by age-groups. (DM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Blacks, Japanese Americans
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Blane, Howard T.; Yamamoto, Kazuo – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1970
Japanese, Japanese-American, and Caucasian high school students were tested to investigate sex role identity. Japanese students were more feminine than either of the other two groups. Within the latter two, the Japanese-Americans were more feminine than the Caucasians on one measure, but not different on the other. (DM)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Traits, Japanese Americans
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King, Haitung; Locke, Frances B. – International Migration Review, 1980
Examines the changing occupational patterns of Chinese Americans in the past 100 years. Considers the historic background of legal and socioeconomic restrictions, occupation accommodation, differences between native and foreign-born Chinese, Chinese entrepreneurship, the Chinatown sub-economy, and the health status of Chinese with work experience.…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Death, Employment Level, Health
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Williams, John Kino Yamaguchi; Goebert, Deborah; Hishinuma, Earl; Miyamoto, Robin; Anzai, Neal; Izutsu, Satoru; Yanagida, Evelyn; Nishimura, Stephanie; Andrade, Naleen; Baker, F. M. – Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2002
Develops and assesses a model integrating Japanese ethnicity, cultural identity, and anxiety in Japanese American and part-Japanese American high school seniors. Japanese American adolescents scored higher on the scale and reported fewer anxiety symptoms than part-Japanese American adolescents. The model had a good overall fit, suggesting that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Ethnicity, High School Students
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Tanaka, Ronald – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1989
Explores the relationship among the self-image of third-generation Japanese-American males, sexual dynamics within corporations, and their managerial behavior. Argues that ethnic and sexual stereotypes influence Japanese-American participation in the management of U.S. corporations, and that membership in "corporate communities" has…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Stereotypes, Japanese Americans
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