This "Book" has been exhaustively researched and right here in America... This author has written this "Book" as a Hand-y-Book, a Quick Reference Book for all Individuals - counselors, physicians, professors, teachers, practitioners, psychologists, mental-health personnel, sociologist, social workers, religious teachers, etc...Groups - schools, universities, colleges (including community colleges), hospitals, agencies - government, private, public, etc... These individuals and group-organizations are directly affected and are interactive - first hand- by the influx of day to day multicultural experiences...as "multiculturalism" makes it presence felt upon mainstream American life. "Diversity" (Multiculturalism) is the clarion- call in today's society.
The mainstreaming of these "cultures" are demanding space, place and purpose. There are no more the dictates of a "kind of mono-culturalism"; for in this new twenty-first century "DIVERSITY', is demanding equal voice. For further excerpts, please see the "Statement of Purpose" and the first chapter or "Definitions", respectively.