Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics, or simply because of the sound application of good business practice, is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business, management and economic development...
Tremors of Violence
Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western India
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
This book is an ethnographic study of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in Mumbai and two major cities of Gujarat. Based on narratives of and interviews with Muslim men and women, it tries to understand the world and worldviews of those who have seen and lived through one or several violent confrontations...
Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a Response to the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.
Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images...
Rough Writing
Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
This book, based on extensive original research in the field, analyses the political, social and cultural implications of the rise of Islam in post-Soviet Russia. Examining in particular the situation in Tatarstan and Dagestan, where there are large Muslim populations, the authors chart the long history...
Gypsy Identities 1500-2000
From Egipcyans and Moon-men to the Ethnic Romany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto
Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured...
Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference...
A Rainbow of Gangs
Street Cultures in the Mega-City
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
With nearly 1,000 gangs and 200,000 gang members, Los Angeles holds the dubious distinction of being the youth gang capital of the United States. The process of street socialization that leads to gang membership now cuts across all ethnic groups, as evidenced by the growing numbers of gangs among...
by Frank D. Bean, Gray Swicegood
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Mexican American population is the fastest growing major racial/ethnic group in the United States. During the decade 1970–1980, the Mexican origin population increased from 4.5 million to 8.7 million persons. High fertility, not immigration, was responsible for nearly two-thirds of this growth....
Questioning Gypsy Identity
Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005
Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature...
Race and Family
A Structural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The second edition of Race and Family, featuring new examples and updates throughout, focuses on structural factors impacting all families, such as demographic, economic, and historic trends which illuminate the similarities and distinctions among and within racial and ethnic groups. This comprehensive...
Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong
Localism after the Umbrella Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity’s post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong’s political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented...
Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media
American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women’s Online Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks—families, friends, etc.—in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration...