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by C. Paige Gutierrez
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Cajun food has become a popular "ethnic" food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique.Neither...
Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups
International and Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Here is new information on the development of international and intercultural research on self-help groups. This book reflects the many developments which have occurred in the field over the past decade, emphasizing empirical research. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups provides specific research findings...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
Analysis, Representation, Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions.
Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts...
Asian America
Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically...
When Greeks think about Turks
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors...
Social Work Research with Minority and Oppressed Populations
Methodological Issues and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations!
Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with...
Latino Pentecostal Identity
Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. Latino Pentecostal Identity examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion from...
by Syed Husin Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of...
Intersectionality and Politics
Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cutting-edge research on the intersection of race, gender, and politics
Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection...
Mexican Americans Across Generations
Immigrant Families, Racial Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each...
Build Your Neighbour
Dismantle the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Now that most Canadian cities have “gone global,” do you feel overwhelmed by how unaware we are of the culture and backgrounds of our new neighbours? Do you wish you knew enough at least to start a conversation with them? This little book helps get us launched. It starts off in play mode,...
by Michael R. Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
German Pittsburgh explores the multifaceted cultural history of German-speaking immigrants and residents in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Today over one quarter of the city�s residents claim German heritage, the largest ethnic group in the region. German-speaking Pittsburghers include names like H....
The Mexican American Orquesta
Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle for the expression of what...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination,...