Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Barbara Tornquist-Plewa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor...
The History of the Seljuq Turks
The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the M
Chop Suey, USA
The Story of Chinese Food in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese...
New Faces, New Voices
The Hispanic Electorate in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics?...
Lalo Alcaraz
Political Cartooning in the Latino Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b. 1964) has delivered a resolute Latino viewpoint. Of Mexican descent, Alcaraz fights for Latino rights through his creativity, drawing political commentary as well as underlining how...
Tracking a Diaspora
Émigrés from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover collections unused by other scholars!
Russian immigrants are one of the least studied of all the Slavic peoples because of meager collections development. Tracking a Diaspora: Émigrés from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories offers librarians and archivists an abundance...
Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles
The Fuentes Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates, with low rates of college attendance and completion. Attempting to understand this phenomenon,...
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
Class and Culture on the South Texas Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover developments...
The Church in the Barrio
Mexican American Ethno-Catholicism in Houston
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
In a story that spans from the founding of immigrant parishes in the early twentieth century to the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement in the early 1970s, Roberto R. Trevino discusses how an intertwining of ethnic identity and Catholic faith equipped Mexican Americans in Houston to overcome...
Pax Ethnica
Where and How Diversity Succeeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In a world replete with stories of sectarian violence, we are often left wondering: Are there places where people of different ethnicities, especially with significant Muslim minorities, live in peace? If so, why haven't we heard more about them, and what explains their success?
To answer these...
Chinese Politics
State, Society and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China.
Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures,...
Koreans in North America
Their Experiences in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans’ experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans’ immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants’ business patterns, Korean immigrant churches’ social functions, differences...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China which began in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants, many of whom were well educated, have had...
Diaspora by Design
Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.
A comparative, multi-ethnic...