A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how - or whether - patients understand their prescribed drugs? This book illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used in India.
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Drawing from local as well as international examples, this book present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing.
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Drawing from local as well as international examples, this book present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing.
This volume presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethno-cultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European and Middle Eastern descent.
The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918
Reveals that New York's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief promoted a racialized and gendered definition of poverty and citizenship
The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918
Reveals that New York's interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief promoted a racialized and gendered definition of poverty and citizenship.
Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
God in Chinatown is a study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown.
Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
This work covers the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. It examines the role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown's highly stratified ethnic enclave. It shows how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the US.
