Ethnic category: 7100 books
Third World Studies
Theorizing Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power—notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies...
Of Forests and Fields
Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers,...
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back”...
by Kwok Bun Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence...
Learning to be Chinese American
Community, Education, and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Learning to Be Chinese American aims at exploring the complicated identity production process among Chinese immigrants in the United States in relation to the rapidly changing global and local contexts. Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle class Chinese American community,...
by Alfonso Pérez-Agote
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Translated by Cameron Watson and William A. Douglass. Foreword by William A. Douglass. The Basque people have preserved their ethnic identity and sense of themselves as a separate community despite centuries of repression, diaspora, and economic and social upheaval—one of the most remarkable achievements...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability.
These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five...
by Steve Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the...
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Emergent Identities of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Alma Garc'a offers a bold new interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of self-discovery, a process filled with tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. Garc'a captures the...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 6: Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the...
by Peter Manoleas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover a culturally competent model of clinical case management in mental health practice settings. In The Cross-Cultural Practice of Clinical Case Management, author Peter Manoleas synthesizes some of the existent thinking on case management in cross-cultural psychotherapy settings and develops...
Contours of White Ethnicity
Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates...
Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon...
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka
Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The reconstruction...