Table of Contents:
  • Immigrant and involuntary minorities in comparative perspective / John U. Ogbu
  • Immigrant adaptation to schooling: a Hispanic case / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
  • The dynamics of educational decision making: a comparative study of Sikhs in Britain and the United States / Margaret A. Gibson and Parminder K. Bhachu
  • Turkish immigrants in Australia / Christine Inglis and Lenore Manderson
  • Koreans in Japan and the United States / Yongsook Lee
  • Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class: the school adaptation patterns of West Indian Youths / Margaret A. Gibson
  • Situational ethnicity and patterns of school performance among immigrant and nonimmigrant Mexican-descent students / Maria E. Matute-Bianchi
  • Low school performance as an adaptation: the case of blacks in stockton, California / John U. Ogbu
  • Education and American Indians: the experience of the Ute Indian tribe / Betty Jo Kramer
  • The New Zealand experience: Maoris / John M. Barrington
  • Social mobility and education: Barakumin in Japan / Nobuo K. Shimahara
  • Minorities and schooling: some implications / Margaret A. Gibson.