Minority Studies category: 588 books
Chicano Experience, The
An Alternative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1994
Mirandé offers a detailed examination of Chicano social history and culture that includes studies of: Chicano labor and the economy; the Mexican immigrant and the U.S.-Mexico border conflict; the evolution of Chicano criminality; the American educational system and its impact on Chicano culture;...
The Adventures of Eddie Fung
Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation...
I Want to Destroy Myself
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents—her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of the 1960s, and exposed to the best and the brightest in Bombay’s cultural scene,...
by James Masao Mitsui
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new. His poetry has, over two decades� time and three previous volumes, asserted a strong and significant voice within the growing tradition of Asian American literature.
Mitsui�s poems contain a family history of...
Paper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of highcomedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional...
The Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The...
From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron
How Multiculturalism Failed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron explores what can happen when good intentions go askew. Ernesto Caravantes points out that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as the desires of modern luminaries like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery," and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery." These pieces show Douglass at his rhetorical best. Important reading for anyone wanting more after reading his Autobiographies.
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour
US, UK and Global Race Joking
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in the...
by Shawn Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com
La Nación y sus Otros
Raza, etnicidad y diversidad religiosa en tiempos de políticas de identidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2017
La lucha de los movimientos sociales inspirados en el proyecto de una "política de la identidad" no alcanzará la radicalidad del pluralismo que pretende afirmar a menos que los grupos insurgentes partan de una conciencia clara de la profundidad de su "diferencia". Esto implica...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies—archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography—to tease out...
Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical...