Ethnic category: 7100 books
New Racial Missions of Policing
International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining racialization...
Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women's Movements
Strategic Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, and women's movements' participation in and influence on public policy that focuses on violence against women.
Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media
American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women’s Online Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks—families, friends, etc.—in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.
Culture Politics and Linguistic Recognition in Taiwan
Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Party System
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The consolidation of Taiwanese identity in recent years has been accompanied by two interrelated paradoxes: a continued language shift from local Taiwanese languages to Mandarin Chinese, and the increasing subordination of the Hoklo majority culture in ethnic policy and public identity discourses....
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world.
Traditionally, the study of immigrant...
Chinatown, Europe
An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?
The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking migrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics, or simply because of the sound application of good business practice, is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business, management and economic development...
by Curtis Anderson Gayle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic...
Hispanic Migration and Urban Development
Studies from Washington DC
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This volume of "Research in Race and Ethnic Relations" analyzes the pattern of assimilation and incorporation among the Hispanic population in the Washington DC metro region. Following a comprehensive introduction looking at theoretical and policy implication, the book consists of two conceptual...
Latina Teachers
Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology...
Race, Place and the Seaside
Postcards from the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside. The book calls for acknowledgement of the racialised nature of this environment, and proposes that its distinctive spaces, places, traditions and narratives should...
Aborigines of Taiwan
The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000,...