Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
The Public Life of Australian Multiculturalism
Building a Diverse Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders, multicultural policy and approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study approach, examining Australia’s...
Theories of Race and Ethnicity
Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues...
by Hemanta Saikia
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The Mising is a major ethnic group of north east India and second largest tribe in Assam. As per 2001 census the Mising constitutes 17.8 percent of the tribal population...
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Memoirs of Mo
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
During the last three years of his life, Modesto E. Ellano, Jr. (Mo) wrote this inspiring story of a troubled youth who eventually became a productive and fulfilled man as a university professor, instructing others in the subject and ethics of social work. Growing up in the Depression at a time when...
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos
Perspective for Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and indigenous conflict resolution systems as a tool for social justice. It explores how the conflict...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book explores the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, Buddhist studies and Pali examine multiple dimensions of the problem. Buddhist...
The Coming Man from Canton
Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously...
by Florante Peter Ibanez, Roselyn Estepa Ibanez
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
One of Carson�s most distinct features is its diversity. The city is roughly one-quarter each Hispanic, African American, white, and Asian/ Pacific Islander. This last group�s vast majority are Filipinos who settled as early as the 1920s as farmworkers, U.S. military recruits, entrepreneurs, medical...
On the Margins of Tibet
Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of...
La Calle
Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical,...
Racial Revolutions
Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In *Racial Revolutions—*the first book-length study of racial formation...
Latino Lives in America
Making It Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America*,* six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos’ population growth and...
Samurai among Panthers
Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and ’70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the...
Hijas Americanas
Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas.
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