Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book (Reference Books on Family Issues)

Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of color to a level reflecting their majority status in the world's population. While the vast majority of the world's infants are infants of color, a scan of 175 journals only resulted in 386 studies. This crisply underscores the need to intensify studies of cross-culture and within-culture variability, in order to broaden our understanding of the cultural impact on social and behavioral development during the first few years of human life. Infancy and Culture takes a small step in that direction by cataloging the extant literature by geographic region, and by cross-indexing it by topical content. Citations are numbered consecutively throughout the text and both author and subject indexes are pegged to the citation number, not to page numbers, thereby facilitating one's search for all published literature related to a particular topic. Finally, the editors provide a brief summary of the research for each chapter in the volume. Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of color to a level reflecting their majority status in the world's population. While the vast majority of the world's infants are infants of color, a scan of 175 journals only resulted in 386 studies. This crisply underscores the need to intensify studies of cross-culture and within-culture variability, in order to broaden our understanding of the culture impact on social and behavioral development during the first few years of human life. Infancy and Culture takes a small step in that direction by cataloging the extant literature by geographic region, and by cross-indexing it by topical content. Citations are numbered consecutively throughout the text and both author and subject indexes are pegged to the citation number, not to page numbers, thereby facilitating one's search for all published literature related to a particular topic. Finally, the editors provide a brief summary of the research for each chapter in the volume. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 5 A GUIDE TO SOME COMMON ACRONYMS......Page 7 INFANCY AND CULTURE......Page 9 1 THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INFANCY......Page 11 PART 1 NORTH AMERICA......Page 26 2 RESEARCH ON INFANTS OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN......Page 28 3 ASIAN AMERICAN INFANTS CHALLENGES AND DIVERSITY......Page 69 4 LATINO INFANCY RESEARCH A REFLECTION ON CULTURE AND THE IMPACT OF POVERTY......Page 76 5 NATIVE AMERICAN AND ALASKAN ALUET INFANCY RESEARCH A DlSADVANTAGED CULTURE......Page 87 PART 2 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA......Page 95 6 LATIN AMERICAN INFANTS RESEARCH ON POVERTY, POVERTY IN RESEARCH......Page 97 PART 3 EUROPE......Page 103 7 THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF INFANTS RESIDING IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES......Page 105 PART 4 AFRICA......Page 112 8 INFANCY RESEARCH IN AFRICA AN ABUNDANCE OF RICH RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES......Page 114 PART 5 ASIA......Page 124 9 DIVERSE CULTURES, DIVERGENT VIEWS......Page 126 PART 6 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND......Page 140 10 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALANDER INFANTS......Page 142 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 146 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 159 Ch. 1. The Cultural Context Of Infancy / Hiram E. Fitzgerald -- Ch. 2. Research On Infants Of African Descent In North America And The Caribbean: From Historical Deprivation To New Questions Of Resiliency / Rosalind B. Johnson -- Ch. 3. Asian-american Infants: Challenges, Diversity, And What Little We Actually Know / Domini R. Castellino -- Ch. 4. Latino Infancy Research: A Reflection On Culture And The Impacts Of Poverty / Carol Barnes Johnson -- Ch. 5. Native American And Alaskan Aluet Infancy Research: A Disadvantaged Culture / Mary Judge-lawton -- Ch. 6. Latin American Infants: Research On Poverty, Poverty In Research / Laurie A. Van Egeren. Edited By Hiram E. Fitzgerald ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This text provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioural studies of infants of colour. A brief summary of the research for each chapter is provided.