acculturation

"First- and second-generation immigrants to the US from all around the world collaborate with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald to create a . . . catalog of their experiences from A to Z"--Provided by publisher.

"[Relates the history] of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii--its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers--a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an examination of acculturation, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the United States, and discusses immigration, class, and religion and how American culture was shaped from the cultures of Europe, much of Asia, Africa, Pre-Columbian America, and Latin America.

On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared the Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued" and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.

An outbreak of a disease known as the "black vomit" prevents the English from strengthening their hold in the New World in the 18th century, with huge repercussions; the untimely death of an emperor prevents Chinese and Portuguese explorers from meeting along the coast of West Africa in the 15th century; the most significant factor in the Spanish exploration of North America turns out not to be Spain's mighty armies or her unrivaled fleet, but the lowly mosquito. In human history, little things can make a big difference, as Samuel Wilson demonstrates in this book. These 23 stories examine moments in history when two cultures, previously unknown to each other, first came into contact. Focusing on individuals caught by chance in pivotal times and places, Wilson explores the ways in which seemingly small decisions made during the initial contact period between two cultures have had a huge impact on the course of history. From the 1850 England-West Indies cricket match to EuroDisney's reintroduction of traditional folk tales to Europe, the effects of these contact periods are still very much with us. Little-known events with large consequences and remarkable characters fill these interesting, informatiive and sometimes surprising essays.

Indigo, a young child of the Sand Lizard people, a tribe that has been driven from its home, is reduced to scavenging from the town dump in an effort to stay alive before being rescued by Hattie, a Victorian woman who, with good intentions, sets out to transform Indigo into a proper American girl.

Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.

Explores how environmental, demographic, economic, and political changes in Africa and the Middle East are threatening fourteen endangered cultures.