1st Edition
Cultural Conflict & Adaptation
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990. The Hmong people, with a total population of about 5 million, have a long history of statelessness and migration. During the last century, groups of Hmong moved from southern China into Indochina and, as war refugees, about 90,000 have come to America in the last thirteen years. This book examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a... Read more
Culture conflict and the American dream; ethnohistory of the Hmong people; the Hmong at La Playa; becoming American through schooling; seven "learning disabled" Indochinese - institutional approach to children facing culture conflict; culture and minority achievement - implications for research and instructional practice.
Biography
Henry T. Trueba, Lila Jacobs, Elizabeth Kirton
