Human diversity: perspectives on people in context

Preface

The editors

List of contributors

Introduction / Stanley Sue

Part I. Overview : a psychology of human diversity. 1. Toward an overarching framework for diversity / Edison J. Trickett, Roderick J. Watts, Dina Birman

2. Our similarities are different : toward a psychology of affirmative diversity / James M. Jones

Part II. Human diversity : philosophical and paradigmatic tenets. 3. Paradigms of diversity / Roderick J. Watts

4. Feminism and psychology : a dynamic interaction / Nancy Felipe Russo, Amy J. Dabul

5. Optimal theory and the psychology of human diversity / Linda James Meyers, Suzette L. Speight

6. An ecological perspective on cultural and ethnic psychology / John W. Berry

Part III. Key concepts in human diversity : oppression, intergroup dynamics, culture, and identity. 7. The discourse of oppression in the social sciences : past, present, and future / Isaac Prilleltensky, Lev Gonick

8. Toward an ethnography of "voice'' and "silence'' / Shulamit Reinharz

9. A white man's perspective on the unconscious processes within black-white relations in the United States / Clayton P. Alderfer

10. Culture and human diversity / Walter J. Lonner

11. Culture and disability : an anthropological point of view / Jessica Scheer

12. Acculturation and human diversity in a multicultural society / Dina Birman

13. The conceptualization of racial identity and other "racial'' constructs / Janet E. Helms

14. Identity development and sexual orientation : toward a model of lesbian, gay, and bisexual development / Anthony D'Augelli

15. Age as a dimension of diversity : the experience of being old / Margaret Gatz, Brian Cotton

Part IV. Applying paradigms and concepts of human diversity : conducting diversity-conscious research and creating settings supportive of diversity. 16. Empowerment as a guide to doing research : diversity as a positive value / Julian Rappaport

17. "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, that's what gets results'' : another look / Forrest B. Tyler

18. Integration of ethnic minorities into academic psychology : how it has been and what it could be / Martha E. Bernal

19. Creating social settings for diversity: an ecological thesis / James G. Kelly, L. Seán Azelton, Rebecca Burzette, Lynne O. Mock

Conclusion : convergence and divergence in human diversity / Roderick J. Watts, Edison J. Trickett, Dina Birman

Name index

Subject index.