Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Ethno-symbolism and Nationalism
A Cultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Anthony D. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, and is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies. Anthony Smith has developed an approach to the study of nations and nationalism called ethno-symbolism,...
River of Hope
Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...
The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque
Complex Identities in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and...
by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved...
Peopling the Russian Periphery
Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This...
by Fausto Barlocco
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a deeper...
Health Care and Immigration
Understanding the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions address the...
Beyond the Alamo
Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores...
Racial Transformations
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized...
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira...
by Beverly Mizrachi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
While first-generation immigrant women often begin their lives at the bottom of their new societies, the fates of their adult daughters can be very different. Still, little research has been done to examine the opportunities or constraints that second-generation women face and the class achievements...
Power at the Roots
Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as...
Racialization and Religion
Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume locates the contemporary study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia squarely within the fields of race and racism. As such, it challenges the extent to which discussion of the racialization of these minorities remains unrelated to each other, or is explored in distinct silos as a series of...
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical...