Ethnic category: 7100 books
The Politics of Aid to Burma
A Humanitarian Struggle on the Thai-Burmese Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more...
The Politics of Integration
Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore,...
Educational Journeys, Struggles and Ethnic Identity
The Impact of State Schooling on Muslim Hui in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China. By discussing the interpretation and appropriation of dominant educational discourse of “quality”...
Different but the Same
Persons of the African-American and Caucasian Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
I am excited about the potential energy this book may generate. I have spoken with and interviewed people throughout the country in both metropolitan and rural populations. Their participation and responses have been immeasurably favorable. The majority of responses elevated my enthusiasm to indescribable...
by Maher
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is the first in-depth study of the "other" Japan - the diverse and complex culture that belies the conventional portrayal of Japan as a homogenous entity. Moving, fascinating and surprising, this book sets out the largely untold story of the cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity...
Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations
Looking through the Lens of Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations reflects on the tensions and contradictions that arise within debates on social inclusion, arguing that both the concept of social inclusion and policy surrounding it need to incorporate visions of citizenship that value ethnic diversity. Presenting...
Islam and China's Hong Kong
Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the “black belt” because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The disproportionate criminalisation and incarceration of particular minority ethnic groups has long been observed, though much of the work in criminology has been dominated by a somewhat narrow debate. This debate has concerned itself with explaining this disproportionality in terms of structural...
Hmong Refugees in the New World
Culture, Community and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Almost no one in the West had heard of the Hmong before National Geographic ran a cover story on the Southeast Asian ethnic group that had allied with the United States in the Vietnam War, and few knew of them before their arrival in the U.S. and other Western nations in 1975. Originating in China...
Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders
Blood and Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Secret and private organizations, in the form of Greek-letter organizations, mutual aid societies, and civic orders, together possess a storied and often-romanticized place in popular culture. While much has been made of these groups’ glamorous origins and influence—such as the Freemasons’ genesis...
by Xiaowei Zang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...
The Making of Hmong America
Forty Years after the Secret War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled...
Police, Race and Culture in the 'new Ireland'
An Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book explores the relationship between the Irish police and ethnic minorities, made particularly pressing by the rapid ethnic diversification of Irish society. It addresses the current deficit in knowledge of this area by exploring how Irish police officers conceive of, talk about, and interact with Ireland's immigrant minority communities.