Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Desis In The House
Indian American Youth Culture In Nyc
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the...
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Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras [3 volumes]
From Calaveras to Quinceañeras
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In the last decade, the Latina/o population has established itself as the fastest growing ethnic group within the United States, and constitutes one of the largest minority groups in the nation. While the different Latina/o groups do have cultural commonalities, there are also many differences among...
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo. This story is based on ideology rather than on truth, yet ideology is the foundation for the U.S. American cultural memory that underwrites official history. The Alamo, as a narrative of national progress, supports the heroic acts that have created...
Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities of Pakistan
Constitutional and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Examines the issues facing indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, including their role in the nation's constitutional and legal developments, and makes a number of recommendations which would satisfy their demands without compromising the sovereignty of the state.
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus
Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and nationalism contributed to that conflict. The author examines the historiography and politics of the conflict, and the historical,...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television...
Political Engagement Amongst Ethnic Minority Young People
Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The peoples of Africa are neither ethnically, culturally, nor religiously homogeneous. European colonial powers took little note of this reality in carving up the continent, a fact reflected in the periodic outbreak of civil war since decolonialization. Likewise, Western European models of development,...
Filipino Americans
Transformation and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1997
When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States.
This interdisciplinary...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system,...
Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East
The Case of Tripura
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Tripura in India’s Northeast remains the only region in the world which has sustained a strong left radical political tradition for more than a century, in a context not usually congenial for left politics. Tripura is one of the 29 States in India which has returned the Communist Party of India...
Ethnic Groups of the Americas: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Cultural Exclusion in China
State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world.
Traditionally, the study of immigrant...