Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history,...
Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Building Global Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the...
by Stephen P. Haluszczak
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Originally known as Ruthenians, Ukrainians began to immigrate to western Pennsylvania in the late 1800s. Attracted by the region�s growing importance as an industrial center, they settled in cities and towns close to their work. Like other immigrants, they faced many economic and social hardships,...
On Strike and on Film
Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952....
Aztlán Arizona
Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements against the backdrop of broad societal shifts that...
Mike Torrez
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much...
by Mark A. Ocegueda, Terry A. Cannon, Richard A. Santillan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire celebrates the thriving culture of former teams from Pomona, Ontario, Cucamonga, Chino, Claremont, San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Corona, Beaumont, and the Coachella Valley. From the early 20th century through the 1950s, baseball diamonds in the Inland...
Igbo in the Atlantic World
African Origins and Diasporic Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience...
Politics in Malaysia
The Malay Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community.
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Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian...
Diversity and Society
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Adapted from Joseph F. Healey and Eileen O’Brien’s bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this brief and accessible text presents a unified sociological frame of reference to help students analyze minority-dominant relations in the U.S. Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,...
Focusing on the Underserved
Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recent discussions and dissemination of information regarding the rapid growth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across our nation are creating some awareness among administrators and educators in higher education institutions regarding the extensive diversity of AAPIs, the struggles...
The Mexican American Family
Tradition and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.
South Asians on the U.S. Screen
Just Like Everyone Else?
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in visual media, from creative storytelling to streaming technology, inform changing dynamics of all non-white media representations...