Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Cynthia Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia. It considers the impact of ethnicity, socio-economic status, and school experiences and achievement. It discusses the effects of Malaysia’s ethnic affirmative...
The Ethno-Narcotic Politics of the Shan People
Fighting with Drugs, Fighting for the Nation on the Thai–Burmese Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book proposes the alternative explanation on the pattern of ethnic conflict, especially the on-going civil war in Myanmar. Previously, most scholars accepted that narcotics play the crucial role in conflict as the resource of revenues. However, this book dramatically changes what we have ever...
Living at the Edge of Thai Society
The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological...
Song and Silence
Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
In the sunny, subtropical Sipsongpanna region, Tai Lues perform flirtatious, exoticized dances for an increasingly growing tourist trade. Endorsed by Chinese officials, who view the Tai Lues as a "model minority," these staged performances are part of a carefully sanctioned ethnic policy....
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the “black belt” because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in...
by Xiaowei Zang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...
Racialised Gang Rape and the Reinforcement of Dominant Order
Discourses of Gender, Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This path-breaking book provides a comparative analysis of public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised racialised gang rapes that occurred during the early to mid-2000s. These rapes led to intense public debate in both countries regarding an apparent ‘gang rape phenomenon’...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people�s lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those...
Ethnicity and Racism in Cyprus
National Pride and Prejudice?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Investigating the relationship between ethnic pride and prejudice in the divided community of Cyprus, this book focuses on the ethnic stereotypes that Greek and Turkish Cypriot secondary school students develop of each other and other ethnic groups in Cyprus.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Many geographically diverse regions in the world contain a rich variety of cultures within them. While some have many socio-cultural similarities, tensions can still arise to make such areas unstable and vulnerable. Intercultural Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Asia is a critical reference source for...
Migrants and Identity in Japan and Brazil
The Nikkeijin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the 20th century caused many Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. The situation was reversed in the 1980s as a result of economic downturn in Brazil and labour shortages in Japan. This book examines the construction and reconstruction of the ethnic identities...
Asian America
Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically...
Singapore Malays
Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-State
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the 'Malay Muslim story' in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant self. Distinguished...