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Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture
Asia in Flight
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.
Using examples...
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate—and suggests practical remedies for change.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the realities of...
Racialization and Religion
Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of...
Identity, Violence and Power
Mobilising Hatred, Demobilising Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions. The authors show how identity is created through shared social practices and how it is transformed when collective violence disrupts...
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism...
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical...
The Latino Generation
Voices of the New America
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they...
Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement
Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unified...
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative...
To March for Others
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers. SNCC...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history,...
Amerikanuak
Basques In The New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This work, by William Douglass (who helped initiate the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno) and Jon Bilbao (author of several Basque reference works), is the most accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Amerikanuak is a pioneering study of one of...
Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Building Global Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the...