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The article presents an overview of the cultural relations between Jews and African Americans in the 20th-century, focusing on the ideological cooperation between the groups during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Discussion is given outlining how the two ethnicities have shared common experiences of social marginalization and engaged issues of cultural assimilation. Further mention is given concerning the contrasts in their separate social developments through the century and their resultant divergence because of them.

Young people's ideas about their obligations to parents are linked to the popularization of high school as an institutional space for adolescence. This chapter examines the growing acceptance of the concept of adolescence among Italian immigrants historically as a salient example of a broader cultural change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]