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Title:

Ethnicity and causal mechanisms / edited by Michael Rutter, Marta Tienda.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xx, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Minority teenagers--Research.
Minority teenagers--United States.
Minority teenagers--Great Britain.
Ethnicity--United States--Psychological aspects.
Ethnicity--Great Britain--Psychological aspects.
Ethnopsychology.

Other Authors:

Rutter, Michael, 1933-
Tienda, Marta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction/preface / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda -- Natural experiments, causal influences, and policy development / Michael Rutter -- Growing up ethnic in the UK and US : comparative contexts for youth development / Marta Tienda -- The multiple facets of ethnicity / Michael Rutter and Marta Tienda -- Educational attainments : ethnic differences in the UK / Barbara Maughan -- Race and ethnic inequality in educational attainment in the United States / Charles Hirschman and Jennifer C. Lee -- Racial and ethnic disparities in crime and delinquency in the United States / Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Explaining ethnic variations in crime and antisocial behavior in the UK / David J. Smith -- Cultural differences in the effects of physical punishment / Kirby Deater-Deckard, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Emma Sorbring -- Ethnicity and mental health : the example of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in Europe / Peter B. Jones & W.L. Alan Fung -- Ethnic variations in youth suicide / Jewelle Taylor Gibbs -- Ethnicity and intergenerational identities and adaptations in Britain : the socio-political context / Tariq Modood -- Assimilation, dissimilation, and ethnic identities : the experience of children of immigrants in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- Deciphering ethnicity : reflections on research opportunities / Marta Tienda and Michael Rutter.

Series:

The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence

ISBN:

9780521849937 (hardcover)
0521849934 (hardcover)
9780521615105 (pbk.)
0521615100 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57344072

LCCN:

2004030540

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)