Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Issei, Nisei, War Bride
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service Evelyn Nakano Glenn "A richly detailed and sophisticated examination of...how historical and economic forces restricted women's lives and how women devised strategies for dealing with their plight." --Canadian Woman Studies...
Sinophone Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Grandparents in Cultural Context gives a long overdue global view of the changing roles of grandparents. The eleven main chapters are by experts in the Americas, Europe and Russia, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East, and the editors integrate their chapters with previous writings on grandparenthood....
by Carolyn S. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity,...
Affectivity and Race
Studies from Nordic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the specific political and cultural landscapes...
Diaspora and Identity
Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current status, and characteristics of the study of China in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar, and what factors shaped...
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against...
Chinese Citizenship
Views from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Bringing a new dimension to the study of citizenship, Chinese Citizenship examines how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal with state efforts to transform them into model citizens in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Based on extensive original research, the authors argue...
Modernity and Malaysia
Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.
Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000...
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us...
Feminism without Borders
Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2003
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and...
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama
The Other “Other”
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages...