Ethnic category: 7100 books
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...
Dead Subjects
Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...
Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights
Hungarians in Transylvania
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority elites and Romania's...
Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand
Highlanders in the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs...
Ethnic Dress in the United States
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
The clothing...
Urban Ethnic Encounters
The Spatial Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations...
Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World
The End of Exploitation and Exclusion?
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degree to a reduction in the levels of inequality between nations, yet inequality within nations remains high and in some cases, continues to increase. Ethnic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Recent attacks on Ethnic Studies, revisionist actions in curriculum content, and anti-immigrant policies are creating a new culture war in America. This important work lays out the current debates—both in K–12 and higher education—to uncover the dangers and to offer solutions.
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Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity
Japanese, Ukrainians, and Scots, 1919-1971
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and “mainstream” societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of...
Chinese Ethnic Business
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia...
by Colin Mackerras
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at such core issues as:
· the ethnic minorities or groups in the country of concern, how many ethnic groups, population, language...
by David Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in:
* Burma
* Singapore
* Indonesia
* Malaysia
* Thailand
The study considers the influence of the State on the formation...
Ethnic Politics in Burma
States of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country. The book includes a brief...