Details

Edition

Third edition.

Description

1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps

text txt rdacontent

computer c rdamedia

online resource cr rdacarrier

Series

Gale eBooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

volume 1. Acadians - Czech Americans -- volume 2. Danish Americans - Jordanian Americans -- volume 3. Kenyan Americans - Puerto Rican Americans -- volume 4. Romani Americans - Zuni.

Summary

This work includes 23 new ethnic groups and contains 152 revised ethnic entries on specific minority groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Subject

Cultural pluralism -- United States -- Encyclopedias.

Ethnology -- United States -- Encyclopedias.

Minorities -- United States -- Encyclopedias.

United States -- Ethnic relations -- Encyclopedias.

United States -- Race relations -- Encyclopedias.

Added Author

Riggs, Thomas, 1963- editor.

Gale (Firm)

Added Title

Encyclopedia of multicultural America

Multicultural America

Other Form:

Print version: Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America. Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning, [2014] 9780787675509 (DLC) 2013049273

ISBN

9781414438061 (electronic book)

9780787675509 (set : hardcover)

9780787675516 (vol. 1 : hardcover)

0787675512 (vol. 1)

9780787675523 (vol. 2 : hardcover)

0787675520 (vol. 2)

9780787675530 (vol. 3 : hardcover)

0787675539 (vol. 3)

9781414432793 (vol. 4 : hardcover)

1414432798 (vol. 4)