TY - JOUR AU - Cox, Gerry AU - Bulk, Jac PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Death Education and Minorities JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/death-education-and-minorities SP - AB - Teaching about dying and death presents a unique opportunity to promote America’s multicultural richness. We can teach our students about the death management practices of a wondrous diversity of cultures. We can, also, purposefully select to illuminate those cultures that would give our students the opportunity to learn more about their fellow students and about students from other lands. Paradoxically, many of our minority students have become so assimilated into the mainstream society that they may have only a scant appreciation of their own traditional cultures as they enter our classrooms and this is where we can make a meaningful difference in their lives while at the same time enriching the mainstream student’s lives, as well. ER -