Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by R. Singla
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages. This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
From High School to College
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree,...
Balancing the World
Contemporary Maya "ajqijab" in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq’ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the men and women called ajq’ijab...
Italian American
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.
The first study of its...
American Narratives
Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
American Narratives takes readers back to the turn of the twentieth century to reintroduce four writers of varying ethnic backgrounds whose works were mostly ignored by critics of their day. With the skill of a literary detective, Molly Crumpton Winter recovers an early multicultural discourse on...
Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity
Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States. Their discussion joins two distinct traditions: the philosophy of race begun by African Americans in the nineteenth century, and the search for...
The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
Gender and Nation in a New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state,...
Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
The only book length study to cover the Philippines after Marco's downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century. Appealing to both the academic and non academic reader, topics covered include:
national level electoral politics
economic...
Turbulent Times and Enduring Peoples
Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other...
Race and Racism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Race and Racism examines the foundations of race in American society from an anthropological perspective. The book offers and accessible overview of a variety of perspectives and theories on the biology of race, the social context of race, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and more. The second edition...
The Voice of Adolescents
Autonomy from Their Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Autonomy is a basic and universal human need to develop a sense of self. Autonomy is developed in various ways and is crucial for optimal learning. Adolescents may differ in their views about factors that influence their autonomy. Similarities and differences may also exist among ethnic groups. Nonetheless,...
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
The Fallacy of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2001
Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence. It presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics...
Tribal Politics in Iran
Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the Islamic Republic. It analyzes the political and socio-economic...