While children's quality of life improved from the mid-1990s through 2002, further progress has stalled, according to the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI). This stall can be found across five of the CWI's seven domains. The exceptions are children's health, which continues its dramatic decline, and children's safety and behavior, which continues to improve.
"Social and cultural interaction between immigrants and established residents creates the cross-cultural understanding that helps all community members gain a level of comfort with one another and widens their appreciation for all cultures. It shifts everyone's attention to commonalities that can unite, rather than differences that can divide.
Synthesizes research on key contemporary race issues. In Volume 1, leading scholars address demographic changes, immigration trends, racial attitudes, racial and ethnic trends in education, and residential segregation; Volume 2 covers trends in the justice system, labor force and welfare, and health.
This book, which was one of two follow-up reports to the Ford Foundation’s Changing Relations Project from 1987 to 1991, placed multicultural research teams in a variety of U.S. cities. The research revealed that participation across groups in a shared task helps to reduce competition as well as build bonds of trust. The report noted that the challenge is not merely in "harmonizing relations among groups" but in "mobilizing intergroup cooperation into strategies for economic and political advancement." Examples of initiatives included the following areas: affordable housing, economic development, family literacy, and neighborhood and citywide advocacy.
This publication examines anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States prior to September 11, analyzes the history and goals of major restrictionist groups, and explores how restrictionists took advantage of the terrorist attack to promote an anti-immigrant message.
Provides information about hate crimes and how to report them; resource sheets include frequently asked questions; checklists for hate crime victims and community organizations; and information on working with law enforcement and the media. This toolkit is also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Urdu and available here.
Documents causes and incidence of hate crimes in the United States, including backlash incidents after September 11; profiles six different major organized hate groups, including armed border vigilante groups, and examines effectiveness of federal and state law enforcement efforts.
Examining relationships among African-American, Jewish, and Korean merchants and their black customers in New York and Philadelphia, finds, contrary to frequent sensationalism of media coverage, that social order, routine, and civility are the norm. Illustrates how everyday civility is negotiated and maintained in daily interactions between merchants and their customers.
Explains sources and impact of American nativism which flourished during the great cycle of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Higham's analysis of the different strains of nativism, from anti-foreign to anti-radical and anti-Catholic, is considered masterful and is relied on by scholars today.
Analyzes how different racial and ethnic groups have related to each other, both historically and today. Scholars trace the history of different perspectives of race and ethnicity, the shifting role of state policy, trends in intermarriage and residential segregation, and intergroup relations among Blacks, Asian-Americans, and Latinos.
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