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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464065603321

Titolo

Multicultural geographies [[electronic resource] ] : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4384-3683-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

A Global Academic Publishing book

Altri autori (Persone)

FrazierJohn W

MargaiFlorence M

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - United States

Human geography - United States

Immigrants - United States - Social conditions

Minorities - United States - Social conditions

Multicultural education - United States

Social change - United States

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations

United States Geography

United States Race relations

United States Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Multiculturalism and multicultural education in the United States : the contributory role of geography / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier -- Culture, cultural landscapes, and the historical contexts for economic expansion, immigration, and group settlements in the United States / John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai -- U.S. Black geographies -- Black American geographies : the historical and contemporary distributions of African Americans / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- The plight of African Americans in Michigan : residential segregation, and predictable outcomes in mortgage lending and educational achievement / Joe T. Darden -- Predatory lending and race



: a case study of a Washington, D.C. lender / David H. Kaplan -- Low birth weight and the contribution of residential segregation, New York City, 2000 / Sue C. Grady -- U.S. Asian geographies -- Asians in America : some historical and contemporary patterns / John W. Frazier -- What color is segregation? : changing spatial segregation of Asians : 1980-2000 / David W. S. Wong -- From the ghetto to the invisiburb : shifting patterns of immigrant settlement in contemporary America / Emily Skop and Wei Li -- Refugee resettlement in Utica, New York : opportunities and issues for community development / Ellen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg -- U.S. Latino geographies -- Changing Latino geographies in the United States / Mark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Determinants of Latino migration to Allentown, PA / Mark E. Reisinger -- Latino landscapes and Latino-Black districts : a study of Allentown, PA / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Diversity comes to a small city : the case of Binghamton, NY / Suzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. Frazier -- Methods of racial/ethnic data portrayal and analysis -- Reading and mapping America's changing ethnic geomorphologies and palimpsest geographies / Stanley D. Brunn -- The use of a 3-D mapping technique to portray racial and ethnic change / Lucius S. Willis -- A comparison of traditional and spatial measures of segregation : some empirical findings / David W.S. Wong -- Using geo-data techniques to analyze environmental health inequities in minority -- neighborhoods : the case of toxic exposures and low birth weights / Florence M. Margai -- Summation -- Summary and conclusions / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier.