Culture in Asian American Community Psychology: Beyond the East-West Binary

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-156

  Okazaki, Sumie ^a   Saw, Anne ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Community; Culture; Ethnicity; Immigration; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 78650992938     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-010-9368-z     Document Type: Article

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