Ethnic category: 7100 books
From High School to College
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree,...
Balancing the World
Contemporary Maya "ajqijab" in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq’ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the men and women called ajq’ijab...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...
Italian American
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.
The first study of its...
American Narratives
Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
American Narratives takes readers back to the turn of the twentieth century to reintroduce four writers of varying ethnic backgrounds whose works were mostly ignored by critics of their day. With the skill of a literary detective, Molly Crumpton Winter recovers an early multicultural discourse on...
Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity
Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States. Their discussion joins two distinct traditions: the philosophy of race begun by African Americans in the nineteenth century, and the search for...
Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia
New Games Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The peoples of Greater Central Asia – not only Inner Asian states of Soviet Union but also those who share similar heritages in adjacent countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran, and the Chinese province of Xinjiang – have been drawn into more direct and immediate contact since the Soviet...
The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
Gender and Nation in a New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This collection provides an overview of some of the most relevant concepts in the study of the language of inclusion and exclusion, specifically with a view to the functioning of nation-state categories. Categorizations, words, and phrases are constantly renewed with the intention to exclude (mostly)...
Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
The only book length study to cover the Philippines after Marco's downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century. Appealing to both the academic and non academic reader, topics covered include:
national level electoral politics
economic...
Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples
Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and collaboration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other...