Product Description: Diversified schools, in which students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic characteristics are balanced, have a positive contextual effect on achievement for all groups compared to schools with homogeneous student bodies that tend to help affluent, white students and harm poor students and students of color...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The miracle of the black family is that it has survived and grown stronger over the years. Eighteen case studies provide a window through which we see patterns of variation in the life-styles of affluent, middle-class, working-class, and poor black families. A new feature of this edition is the overview that compares the way of life of blacks in the three social classes. A comparative analysis of black and of white families is introduced.

Product Description: According to master-politician Thomas Tip O'Neill, all politics is local. Edwards and Willie demonstrate the efficacy of local community action, but also show how linkage with state, regional, and national agencies helps groups in their efforts to shape educational policy and practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following their book "Racism and Mental Health", the authors here re-examine the intersections of racism and mental health, adding sexism as another divisive issue that profoundly affects mental health. The book aims to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary controversial issues, including: interracial adoptions, teenage motherhood, gender bias in mental health diagnosis and therapy, prisons used as substitutes for hospitals, homeless families, and increasing violence in the home and on the streets...read more

Product Description: Grouped in four sections - conceptual overview, individuals and families, social problems and the community, and teaching, learning, research and training - these essays discuss racism and sexism as they affect people's mental health...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume discuss racism and sexism as they affect mental health. In particular, they focus on training, diagnosis, treatment, and research, emphasizing the power relationships between individuals and groups that cause unequal access to mental health care...read more

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Product Description: As part of a project on the status of African-Americans that was initiated by the William Monroe Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, this volume takes a comprehensive look at the education of African-Americans, specifically early childhood through postsecondary education, and relevant public policy issues since 1940...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Willie, Charles V., Grady, Michael K., Hope, Richard O.

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Product Description: This collection provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the development of educational policy and practice in the United States during the past century. It presents education as a complex social structure and process that has changed through the years and that defies simplistic solutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Effective Education analyzes the ways in which majority and minority interests interact in the educational system. It outlines the concepts, goals, and policies of effective educational environments, and examines teaching and learning strategies for diversified groups of students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Providing an adequate conceptual apparatus for the explanation and interpretation of behavior associated with race, ethinicity, and socioeconomic status is the goal of this book. Empirical research findings and their theoretical analysis are linked...read more

Product Description: The civil-rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s created new forms of interaction among the races, including a variety of responses such as cooperation, withdrawal, and aggressiveness, and identified adaptations sanctioned and supported by social institutions...read more