Minority Studies category: 588 books
by Paul Barton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The question of how one can be both Hispanic and Protestant has perplexed Mexican Americans in Texas ever since Anglo-American Protestants began converting their Mexican Catholic neighbors early in the nineteenth century. Mexican-American Protestants have faced the double challenge of being a religious...
Orientations
Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001
Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in place? Suggesting new directions for studies of the Asian diaspora, the prominent scholars who contribute...
Japanese Cinema and Otherness
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Japaneseness
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others – foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans – in...
Racial Castration
Managing Masculinity in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well...
by Stevan Harrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues...
Law In and As Culture
Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new worlds of commercial integration and cultural...
by Eugene Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Instead of one black America, today there are four.
“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from Disintegration
The African American...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune
They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the...
by Viorel Achim
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social...
A House of Prayer for All People
Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based...
by Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional...
An Aristocracy of Color
Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S....
by Russell Charles Leong
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans.
In styles ranging from naturalism...
Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had...