The Accommodation Without Assimilation: Women and Medicine in Early New England

by Margaret A. Gibson

Book Overview

"A new version of the old 'immigrant success' story is circulating in America. It implies that the apparent academic progress of recent arrivals to our schools is the result of simple head work, opportunity, and a good attitude. Margaret Gibson has given us a complex antidote to this myth in a carefully researched and fully documented two-year study of Sikh children in a rural California educational setting. In addition to giving the reader the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495032
• ISBN13: 9780801495038
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher