Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Ethnic Angst
A Comparative Study of Bapsi Sidhwa & Rohinton Mistry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book is one of the rare books that delves into the psyche of the Parsi community, their culture and anxieties. The book takes into consideration all these aspects reflected in the fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Rohinton Mistry. Meticulous style, deep critical insights into the literary, critical,...
Contested Belonging
An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea...
by Torsten Tschacher
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated...
Modeling Minority Women
Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.
by John C. Trafny
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
The Polish Community of Gary is a vibrantly illustrated tale of the history of the Midwest's Steel City and its Polish-Catholic residents. It reveals the journey of hopeful and hard-working Polish immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s, established an ethnic community, and adapted to the American...
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Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System [2 volumes]
Racism in the U.S. Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.
• Presents a historical examination of racial and ethnic influences in the early formation of the criminal...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes...
Chinese Television and National Identity Construction
The Cultural Politics of Music-Entertainment Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book examines music entertainment programmes on China Central Television, China’s only national level television network, as well as on nationally-available provincial channels, exploring how such programmes project a nuanced image of China’s identity and position in the world. It shows how...
The Latina Advantage
Gender, Race, and Political Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet...
Hip Hop Desis
South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities...
by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Based on interviews with people throughout Siberia, Central Asia and European Russia about their spiritual experiences, this book brings together insights into the 'religious' worldview of those who claim to be Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, pagan or even 'atheist'. Throughout the ex-Soviet Union peoples...
The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Americanization, De-Americanization, and Racialized Ethnic Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?
by Vincent Peloso
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. During the colonial era, racial and ethnic identities...
The Future of Singapore
Population, Society and the Nature of the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines this...