In Asian-American communities, religious education for justice and peace is often framed by the discussion of racial and ethnic identity. Since racism is a serious social problem in the United States, it is important for Asian-Americans to continue to participate in racial justice movements and discussions of identity politics. Upholding the important works that AsianAmericans have produced, th...

Urbanism in the Indian subcontinent occurred in three distinct time periods in which cultural cohesion over large regions is archaeologically demonstrated through the architecture and artifacts of social, ritual, and economic activity. In the Indus (2500– 1900 B.C.) and Early Historic (3rd century B.C. to 4th century A.D.) periods, cities were not necessarily tied to political territories or gu...

studies of human growth throughout iran since 1966 have been surveyed critically. only 32 papers and 15 research reports on this very crucial issue have been published or compiled so far, most of them on tehran and shiraz, which is negligible in comparison with american or european and even some african and asian studies. though measurements of height and weight naturally predominate, arm circu...

This paper examines evaluations of Asian accented English by American listeners. Despite widely circulating stereotypes about Asian accents, and the substantial body of work on attitudes toward different language varieties, relatively few studies have looked at American attitudes toward Asian accented English, and those that exist have produced rather ambiguous results. In an online survey, res...

As the first phrase of a research program aimed at adapting and delivering the New Beginnings Parent Program for divorced Asian American families, a pilot study was conducted to evaluate the cultural fit of the New Beginnings Parent Program (NBP) with the target group. NBP is a manualized, parentfocused, psychoeducational program that has demonstrated robust evidence of preventing and reducing ...

THISARTICLE DESCRIBES THE SOCIETAL AND professional, as well as the personal, contexts which motivated the creation of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)and its predecessor, the Asian American Librarians Caucus/Association (AALC/A) .The article includes profiles of the Asian/Pacific American library leaders who established these organizations and background information ab...