Minority Studies category: 588 books
by İlker Başbuğ
Language: Turkish
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: Turkish
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı'nın önsözüyle... "Tehcir" Olayları... Nedenleri... Sonuçları...
- 1915 yılında, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu neden bir "Tehcir" (zorunlu göç) uygulaması yapmak zorunda kaldı?- Tehcir esnasında yaşanan olaylarda, her iki tarafın da yalnız kendi kayıplarının...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The role of sport within communities has been promoted with a wide range of goals such as environmental considerations, encouragement of civic pride, enhancement...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This is a collection of twelve academic essays that consider understandings of home and the impact of dominant societies on indigenous societies and their homes. The book covers home and language preservation, homelessness, retention of land, tobacco use in the home, loss of home through trauma and...
A Matter of Honour
Being Chinese in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with people of mixed...
Family Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing...
Making Moderate Islam
Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to...
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA
Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America’s involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America treats citizens of Arab or middle eastern origin within its own borders. *BR**BR*Steven Salaita explores...
Chicanas and Chicanos in School
Racial Profiling, Identity Battles, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
By any measure of test scores and graduation rates, public schools are failing to educate a large percentage of Chicana/o youth. But despite years of analysis of this failure, no consensus has been reached as to how to realistically address it. Taking a new approach to these issues, Marcos Pizarro goes...
Classroom Voices on Education and Race
Students Speak From Inside the Belly of the Beast
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Classroom Voices on Education and Race presents core educational issues— with an emphasis on race and the racial achievement gap, school culture, and curriculum—through the unfiltered and poignant voices of high school students. Students from urban, rural, and suburban public schools express a...
Border Identifications
Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
From poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as "border crossing" and "hybridity" which suggest that a unified culture—neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both—has arisen in the borderlands. But talking to people who actually...
Romaphobia
The Last Acceptable Form of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Based on first-hand accounts from Roma communities, Romaphobia is an examination of the discrimination faced by one of the most persecuted groups in Europe. Well-researched and informative, it shows that this discrimination has its roots in the early history of the European nation-state, and the ways...
A Gift of Barbed Wire
America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey went on to practice psychiatry and, through his work in refugee camps and U.S. social...
Sky Train
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes...
Stick Together and Come Back Home
Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Stick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional...