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The social movements of the 1960s and the subsequent growth in racialized immigrants played a key role in introducing social knowledges into a variety of academic subjects and developing a number of interdisciplinary fields such as Third World Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies and Queer Studies. Background to the development of Ethnic Studies as an interdisciplinary subject is given.

The strategies for teaching about ethnic minority families must be based on ethical considerations. Students must be taught to develop a tolerant and sympathetic attitude toward the racially discriminated minority in the society. They must be made aware of the problems faced by the families and their impact on the society at large. The educators must first try to rid the students of their preconceived notions and prejudices before teaching them to seek commonalities between them and the segregated minority.

The colonialist outlook of core-periphery relationship that informs most archaeological investigations of frontiers and boundaries is problematic. A study recognizes three problems with colonial models of territorial expansion, maintenance of boundaries and homogenous populations. The problems include an approach to culture change which considers frontiers as passive adaptation of core innovations, the dependence on macro scales of analysis, and the assumption that there are always sharp frontier boundaries seen in material culture migrations.