Ethnic category: 7100 books
The Chicano Movement
Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement...
Bad News on the Doorstep
Inspired by a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
The Greatest Generation was in full bloom during the enigmatic decade of the fifties. In northern New Jersey, The Newark Star Ledger on the doorstep every morning was bringing changing news as that pastoral period came to an end.
A blue-collar ethnic family saga evolves that takes you on an...
Advertising Diversity
Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los...
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
One Hundred Years of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred...
Feminism without Borders
Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2003
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and...
Beyond the Alamo
Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores...
Racial Transformations
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized...
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Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms [2 volumes]
From Anime to Tiger Moms
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and general readers that reveals the historical, regional, and ethnic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress...
Filipino American Faith in Action
Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Filipinos are now the second largest Asian American immigrant group in the United States, with a population larger than Japanese Americans and Korean Americans combined. Surprisingly, there is little published on Filipino Americans and their religion, or the ways in which their religious traditions...
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira...
by James Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The sacred formulas and rituals here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war,...
The Children of 1965
On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation...
Driven Out
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten...