Handbook of Children and Prejudice (PDF)

immigrant and refugee groups.

John Norder, Ph.D. (Spirit Lake and Turtle Mountain) is the Director of the Michigan State University Native American Institute, and an Associate Professor in Anthropology. His research and teaching interests include: Native American and First Nations archaeology, ethnohistory and anthropology, particularly in the Great Lakes region of North America. Current and ongoing work has focused on the ways in which traditional Indigenous knowledge is used as a tool of mediation between issues of identity, cultural and natural resource heritages, and economic development in the context of local and state level political negotiations.

Desiree Baolian Qin, Ed.D., is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University. Her research, funded by the William T Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, focuses on understanding how immigration, culture, gender, and ecological contexts, especially family, impact adolescent and emerging adult development. Drawing on mostly mixed-method, longitudinal data, He er research has highlighted many nuanced, complex family processes that have been overlooked in Asian immigrant families, especially struggle in parent-child relations, e.g., emotional alienation, parent-child conflicts, communication challenges, and parent-child separation. Her findings also point to negative effects of tiger parenting in child/adolescent development. Dr. Qin's most recent project examines academic and psychosocial adaptation challenges of Chinese undergraduate students.

Francisco A. Villarruel, Ph.D. is Professor and Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and a University Outreach and Engagement Senior Fellow at Michigan State University. He is a founding faculty member of the GPI-Youth Development program - an online asynchronous master's program for prospective youth professionals. Dr. Villarruel has worked with numerous communities, state, and federal agencies to address the involvement of Latino youth in juvenile justice systems programs. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Campaign for Youth Justice and is also working with colleagues across the nation to establish The Alianza for Latino Youth Justice - a consortium of practitioners, advocates, funders, families and scholars that seek to engage in culturally relevant practices to address the needs of Latino youth secure placements.