Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. This handbook reviews cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work on the psychology of multicultural identities and experiences. It addresses some important basic (e.g., measurement, socio-cognitive and neural mechanisms) and applied issues (e.g., multiculturalism in marketing and organizational science).

Chapter 1: Introduction ; V. Benet-Martinez & YY. Hong ; PART I: DEFINITIONAL ISSUES AND BASIC PROCESSES ; Chapter 2: Dynamic multiculturalism: The interplay of social cognitive, neural, and genetic mechanisms ; YY. Hong & M. Khei ; Chapter 3: The bilingual brain: Language, culture, and identity ; N. Ramirez-Esparza & A. Garcia-Sierra ; Chapter 4: The identity dynamics of acculturation and multiculturalism ; S. Schwartz, V. Vignoles, R. Brown, & H. Zagefka ; PART II: THE SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTEXT ; Chapter 5: Multicultural societies ; J. Berry & D. Sam ; Chapter 6: The social psychology of multiculturalism: Identity and intergroup relations ; K. Deaux & M. Verkuyten ; Chapter 7: Exploring the Identity Autonomy Perspective (IAP): An Integrative theoretical approach to multicultural and multiracial identity ; D. T. Sanchez, M. J. Shih & L. S. Wilton ; Chapter 8: Multiple groups, multiple identities, and intersectionality ; I. H. Settles & N. T. Buchanan ; Chapter 9: Psychological science of globalization ; A. K-y Leung, L. Qiu, & C. Chiu ; PART III: MEASUREMENT & VALIDITY ISSUES ; Chapter 10: Assessment of psychological acculturation and multiculturalism ; O. Celenk & F. Van de Vijver ; Chapter 11: Implicit multicultural identities ; T. Devos & T. Vu ; PART IV: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ; Chapter 12: Personality and multicultural effectiveness ; K. van der Zee & J.P. van Oudenhoven ; Chapter 13: Variations in multicultural identity: Socio-cognitive processes and Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) ; CY. Cheng, F. Lee, V. Benet-Martinez, & Q. Huyn ; Chapter 14: Multiculturalism and adjustment ; J. Ponterotto & A. Fietzer ; PART V: DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, & COUNSELING ; Chapter 15: Identity formation in bicultural youth ; P. Vedder & J. Phinney ; Chapter 16: Childhood socialization and academic performance of bicultural youth ; J. Mistry, M. Contreras, & E. Pufall-Jones ; Chapter 17: Multicultural education and global citizens ; J. A. Banks ; Chapter 18: Multicultural counseling & therapy ; L. Perez-Gualdron & C. Yeh ; PART VI: APPLIED PERSPECTIVES ; Chapter 19: Bridging cultural divides: Traversing organizational and psychological perspectives on multiculturalism ; M.Y. Brannen & F. Lee ; Chapter 20: Cultural diversity and marketing: The multicultural consumer ; L. A. Peracchio, M. G. Bublitz, & D. Luna ; Chapter 21: Policies for managing cultural diversity ; C. Novoa & F. Moghaddam ; Chapter 22: Managing identity issues in intercultural conflict communication ; S. Ting-Toomey

"This excellent book, written by an international collection of experts, addresses an important topic in a comprehensive manner. The book has definitely fulfilled the purpose for which it is written, and the reader will not be disappointed.' Gary B Kaniuk, Doody's Health Sciences Book Review "The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity, editors bring together a distinguished and impressive set of 47 authors in 22 chapters to address focal aspects of multicultural identity and experience. Benet-Martínez and Hong's volume brings together primarily social psychological perspectives, with additional contributions from counseling psychology, developmental psychology, communication, education, marketing, organizational behavior, and speech-language communication. Overall, the Handbook is a very useful and much-needed resource. It provides, in one place, access to thorough and thoughtful reviews of key topics in the psychology of multiculturalism, serving as a one-stop location for overviews of notable current perspectives, research programs, and theoretical frameworks. Given its comprehensive coverage and its singular configuration, Benet-Martínez and Hong's contribution fills a unique gap in the field and will most likely be a much-used resource." --PsycCRITIQUES

Selling point: Reviews relevant research on multiculturalism from diverse traditions within psychology, including social, personality, developmental, acculturation, educational, and political psychology. Selling point: Reviews relevant multiculturalism research from business disciplines including organizational psychology and behavior and marketing. Selling point: Represents the cutting-edge work of top scholars doing work on the psychological underpinning of multiculturalism.

Verónica Benet-Martínez is currently an ICREA Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, where she leads the Behavioral and Experimental Social Sciences group. Before joining ICREA and UPF, she held faculty positions at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was a funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Personality and Social Research of the University of California, Berkeley. She obtained a Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of California, Davis. Ying-yi Hong is currently a Professor at the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. After receiving undergraduate education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she studied overseas, and subsequently received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, specializing in Personality and Social Psychology. She has taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to Nanyang Technological University.

Selling point: Reviews relevant research on multiculturalism from diverse traditions within psychology, including social, personality, developmental, acculturation, educational, and political psychology. Selling point: Reviews relevant multiculturalism research from business disciplines including organizational psychology and behavior and marketing. Selling point: Represents the cutting-edge work of top scholars doing work on the psychological underpinning of multiculturalism.