Minority Studies category: 588 books
The Reluctant Dragon
Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. In this revisionist analysis, Lawrence Reardon argues that China was not out of touch with the global marketplace during the 1949-78 period and that Deng Xiaoping’s heralded liberalizations...
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1991
This classic study of the American working class, originally published in 1973, is now back in print with a new introduction and epilogue by the author. An innovative blend of first-person experience and original scholarship, Aronowitz traces the historical development of the American working class...
Talking Politics
Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
One of the most distinguished political philosophers of our time, British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh's work continues to deeply influence our understanding of identity, politics, and multiculturalism. Based on a series of interviews of Bhikhu Parekh by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo,...
Ethnicity, Identity, and History
Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In a wide-ranging analysis of the drama of history, the importance of ethnicity, and Jewish identity, these essays explore areas of political and cultural disciplines fused with elegance in the work of the late eminent sociologist Werner J. Cahnman. The prominence of the American and European historians,...
Yellowfish
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one of whom has been grievously...
Promoting Equality
Working with Diversity and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Practitioners working within the people professions have a legal and moralresponsibility to promote equality wherever possible. This insightful bookfrom a leading author provides a lucid guide to the complexities ofinequality, and offers a sound foundation for practice that makes a positivecontribution...
Darcus Howe
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Darcus Howe: a Political Biography examines the struggle for racial justice in Britain, through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial black journalists and campaigners.
Born in Trinidad during the dying days of British colonialism, Howe has become an uncompromising champion...
Soviet Society Under Gorbachev: Current Trends and the Prospects for Change
Current Trends and the Prospects for Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and communications.
Girlhood in the Borderlands
Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
How gender and generation shape perceptions of place and time as told through the voices of Mexican teenage girls
This book examines the lived experiences of Mexican teenage girls raised in transnational families and the varied ways they make meaning of their lives. Under the Bracero Program...
The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life
Blackness as Strategy for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of post-9/11 American society is important in considering diverse forms of the lived experiences and subjectivities...
Migration Management?
Accounts of agricultural and domestic migrant workers in Ragusa (Sicily)
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This book takes the reader into the lives of migrant workers who perform low-status occupations in Ragusa, Sicily. By drawing parallels between the experiences of live-in care and farm migrant workers, the author reveals remarkable similarities in how they relate to the labour market, to the state,...
by Edgar Quinet
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Jean Louis Edgar Quinet (1803 - 1875) est un écrivain, historien et homme politique français. Les liens d'Edgar Quinet avec...
Food Health
Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional...
Out of Albania
From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe’s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes a close look at migrants’ employment, housing and social exclusion in Italy, as well as the process of return...