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  • The Great Demographic Illusion

    Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

    by Richard Alba ...
    Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. ... Read more

    Was $40.69 CAD Now $27.49 CAD

  • Strangers No More

    Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

    by Richard Alba, Nancy Foner ...
    An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Next Generation

    Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Richard Alba, Mary C. Waters ...
    One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Remaking the American Mainstream

    by Richard D. ALBA, Victor Nee ...
    In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, ... Read more

    $35.79 CAD

  • Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity

    by Richard D. Alba ...
    “[A] clear, sympathetic, but not sentimental description of Italian-American experience from the roots in Italy to settlement in the United States, describing the cultural patterns which crossed the ocean with the emigres and the vicissitudes as well as the progress of the integration of the immigrants and their culture into American society... [an] excellent book... the scholarship and ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Digital Meets Handmade

    Jewelry Design, Manufacture, and Art in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Wendy Yothers, Alba Cappellieri ...
    Embraces the problems and solutions posed by the dynamic dance of digital technology with the traditions of craftsmanship and perceived value in jewelry.Over the past twenty years, a seismic shift has occurred in jewelry design and manufacturing. As digital design, digital model-making, and prototyping have elbowed their way into common practice, they have proven themselves to be both invaluable ... Read more

    $84.69 CAD

  • The Children of Immigrants at School

    A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe

    Edited by Richard Alba, Jennifer Holdaway ...
    The Children of Immigrants at School explores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second generation is faring educationally in six countries: France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States. In this insightful volume, Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway bring together a team of renowned social science researchers from ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Next Generation

    Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Richard Alba, Mary C. Waters ...
    One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology

    Facing Global Crises with Hope

    Edited by Carolyn Kagan, Jacqueline Akhurst, Jaime Alfaro, Rebecca Lawthom, Michael Richards, Alba Zambrano ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.Addressing some of the most pressing issues of our times, the text shows how Community Psychology can contribute to principled social change, giving voice, enabling civic ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A

    Toward the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Richard Alba ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1988, Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A is a collection of studies, by leading scholars of ethnicity and race in the U.S.A. Including chapters on Blacks, American Indians, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and white ethnicities, it provides a data-based analysis. Drawing on the first published results from the 1980 census, it gives a unified and comprehensive picture of both the dynamic ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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  • Inclusive Education

    by Harry (Professor in Special Education and Educational Psychology Daniels, Philip (Professor of Special Education Needs Garner ...
    This volume provides overviews and approaches to inclusive education from around the world. It defines the philosophical, political, educational and social implications of "inclusion", and maps out the dilemmas facing its successful implementation. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    " A hard look at what has, and has not, been accomplished in the three decades since the struggle for racial equality began" ( New Perspectives , U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)."An important and necessary book." — The Washington PostIt is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas S... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus