Ethnic category: 7100 books
Borrowed Voices
Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...
Exploring American Folk Music
Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British,...
Slippery Characters
Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter,...
The Racial Middle
Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O’Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle.
The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly...
Bamboo Among The Oaks
Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can...
Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
2008 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
The popular primer to Latino life and culture.
Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making,...
by Peter Kivisto, Paul R. Croll
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to these potent forces. Topics covered include:
The forms...
Rethinking Social Exclusion in India
Castes, Communities and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In recent years exclusionary policies of the Indian state have raised questions concerning social harmony and economic progress. During the last few decades the emergence of identity politics has given new lease of life to exclusionary practices in the country. Castes, communities and ethnic groups...
Sri Lanka
History and the Roots of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections...
Race and Retail
Consumption across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found...
Smeltertown
Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown--La Esmelda, as its residents called it--was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company...
Globalisation, Employment and Education in Sri Lanka
Opportunity and Division
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since the late 1970s, Sri Lanka has undergone a socio-economic transformation, from protectionism towards economic liberalisation and increasing integration into the world economy. Through a systematic comparison of these periods of economic change (1956–1977, and 1977 to the present), Angela W....
The Uyghur Lobby
Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots. Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China’s fifth-largest minority nationality, and their...
Latino America
How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of...