Minority Studies category: 588 books
by Molly Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales�a malleable and durable material that once had commercial uses equivalent to those of plastics today�were first created by Alaska Natives in the early years of the twentieth century. Because they were made...
Mending Fences
The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Mending Fences illuminates the forces driving Moscow�s China policy, from the Ussuri River clashes in 1969 to the "strategic partnership" of the 1990s. Elizabeth Wishnick analyzes the efforts of Soviet leaders simultaneously to maintain their supremacy in the international communist movement,...
What Have the Immigrants Ever Done For Us?
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Right now, immigration is a central point of discussion in both political debate and cultural discourse. With the growth of right-wing parties in Britain, it seems that animosity towards outsiders is increasing every day - after all, immigrants come to our country, steal our jobs and exploit our public...
Routledge Revivals: Colour, Culture, and Consciousness (1974)
Immigrant Intellectuals in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
First published in 1974, this book gives a detailed and thoughtful examination on immigration in Britain, specifying the experiences of non-white intellectuals. In the first section – Viewpoint – each contributor, who was born and raised outside Britain, articulates and analyses the tensions generated...
Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
Race and the Politics of Deception
The Making of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales?
In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space....
Re-imagining contested communities
Connecting Rotherham through research
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process...
Offspring of Empire
The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula and blocked the development of a Korean capitalist class until 1945. In this expansive and provocative study, now available in paperback, Carter J. Eckert...
Confronting Memories of World War II
European and Asian Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized,...
Celebrating the James Partridge Award
Essays Toward the Development of a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Field of Library and Information Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Celebrating the James A. Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award the authors examine issues of race, inclusion, diversity, and justice in the field of library and information science. The award recognizes information professionals who exemplify the highest ideals of the...
by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did these develop? For Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo the turning point came in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. The uprising...
by Leticia Arellano-Morales Ph.D., Erica T. Sosa
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest readers, this book details the state of the physical and mental health of many Latina/o American groups.
• Examines the prevalence of psychological...
Designer Crime, Special Interest's Profit Machine
Political Fictions Revealed, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This first episode of Political Fictions Revealed begins a series of what amount to lies that translate into votes from a believing American electorate. The series is based heavily on data taken from government websites, scholarly texts, and other viable resources. The series is intended to guide the...
Diversity Quotas, Diverse Perspectives
The Case of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Legislative and institutional affirmative and positive action policies, intended to increase accessibility and the participation of historically disadvantaged groups in employment and education, have been with us for some time, particularly in Anglo Saxon countries. One of the major issues they are...