Ethnic category: 7100 books
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan
The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In order to understand the Pakistani state and government’s treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operation in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the Baloch...
Struggle for Ethnic Identity
Narratives by Asian American Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1999
Dr. Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim present a compilation of narratives on ethnic identity written by first-, 1.5-, and second-generation Asian American professionals. In an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies long associated with being both Asian and American, these narratives trace the formation of...
by Kevin Hechinger, Curtis Hechinger
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Can you differentiate between the Amish and the Hasidic Jew?
Do you know the single, shocking difference between the Redneck and the Appalachian? Can you successfully identify -- and avoid -- the Charismatic, Verbose Nigerian Cabdriver or the Honda-Driving UCLA Korean Gangster Wannabe? If the...
Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse
Perspectives on Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Here in one volume is a compilation of cutting-edge research in the field of drug abuse research with specific ethnic-minority groups. This book suggests effective ways to conduct research and enhance research opportunities with such groups. Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse includes summaries of...
by Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including...
Critical Ethnic Studies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does...
Making Italian America
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions...
by Lizhong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
De-politicizing issues of ethnicity is a new theoretical approach to study ethnic questions actively propounded and elaborated by Professor Ma Rong of Sociology Department of Peking University in the past ten years. In the recent years, this theoretical approach has aroused biggish responses from...
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang...
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States
Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume...
The Singapore Ethnic Mosaic
Many Cultures, One People
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and cultures. This volume provides an updated account of the heterogeneity within each of the main communities — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and Others. It also documents the ethnic...
Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America
The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged...