Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.
Culture Politics and Linguistic Recognition in Taiwan
Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The consolidation of Taiwanese identity in recent years has been accompanied by two interrelated paradoxes: a continued language shift from local Taiwanese languages to Mandarin Chinese, and the increasing subordination of the Hoklo majority culture in ethnic policy and public identity discourses....
Chinatown, Europe
An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?
The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking migrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
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...
by Curtis Anderson Gayle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic...
Latina Teachers
Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology...
Race, Place and the Seaside
Postcards from the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside. The book calls for acknowledgement of the racialised nature of this environment, and proposes that its distinctive spaces, places, traditions and narratives should...
Aborigines of Taiwan
The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000,...
Different but the Same
Persons of the African-American and Caucasian Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
I am excited about the potential energy this book may generate. I have spoken with and interviewed people throughout the country in both metropolitan and rural populations. Their participation and responses have been immeasurably favorable. The majority of responses elevated my enthusiasm to indescribable...
by Maher
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is the first in-depth study of the "other" Japan - the diverse and complex culture that belies the conventional portrayal of Japan as a homogenous entity. Moving, fascinating and surprising, this book sets out the largely untold story of the cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity...
Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations
Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations reflects on the tensions and contradictions that arise within debates on social inclusion, arguing that both the concept of social inclusion and policy surrounding it need to incorporate visions of citizenship that value ethnic diversity. Presenting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The disproportionate criminalisation and incarceration of particular minority ethnic groups has long been observed, though much of the work in criminology has been dominated by a somewhat narrow debate. This debate has concerned itself with explaining this disproportionality in terms of structural...
Hmong Refugees in the New World
Culture, Community and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Almost no one in the West had heard of the Hmong before National Geographic ran a cover story on the Southeast Asian ethnic group that had allied with the United States in the Vietnam War, and few knew of them before their arrival in the U.S. and other Western nations in 1975. Originating in China...
China Studies in the Philippines
Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
As China Studies has grown as a discipline, it has also tended to be dominated by the major international powers, particularly China itself, and the USA. It is important to remember, however, that there is a rich and diverse history of China Studies elsewhere, especially in Southeast Asia. The Philippines...