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Pathfinder: Multicultural Psychology

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Web Sites

Scope: Multicultural psychology acknowledges that cultures and national groups differ in norms, values, and traditions while adhering to the concept that there is no inherent inequality present within these different cultures. (Hall, Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology). The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available on this topic.

Books dealing with multicultural psychology are listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following subject headings:

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Ethnopsychology
Intergroup relations
Multiculturalism
United States—Ethnic relations

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF GN 502.H336 2005 Dictionary of multicultural psychology: issues, terms, and
concepts

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Prentice, Deborah A. & Dale T. Miller. Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

Price, William F. Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Introductory Psychology. Pacific
Grove, Calif: Wadsworth, 2002.

Shweder, Richard A. Why Do Men Barbecue?: Recipes for Cultural Psychology.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Trickett, Edison J. Roderick J. Watts & Dina Birman. Human Diversity: Perspectives on People in Context. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Some of the specific periodicals the library subscribes to that focus on this topic are:

American Psychologist
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology


WEB SITES

Multicultural Psychology Association at California State University
http://www.csun.edu/~hbpsy011/

 

Updated 02/08/2007