Minority Studies category: 588 books
The Democracy Machine
How One Engineer Made Voting Possible For All
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Driven to make it possible for people with disabilities to vote like everyone else, engineer Juan Gilbert, a specialist in human-centered computing, spent 10 years perfecting Prime III, software that does just that. His creation has already been tested in the real world and is earning rave reviews...
Race Otherwise
Forging A New Humanism For South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know ?race? with one?s eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and...
Tired of Being a Refugee
Social Identification among Young Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
After six decades of protracted refugeehood, patterns of social identification are changing among the young people of the fourth refugee generation in the Palestinian refugee camp Burj al-Shamali in Southern Lebanon. Though their identity as Palestinian refugees remains the same compared to older...
Historical Frictions
Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
The land claims presented before the Waitangi Tribunal, first established in 1975 as a permanent commision of inquiry to address claims by the Maori people, are discussed in this analysis of the role of legal courts and commissions in mediating disputes with indigenous peoples.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada. Approaching questions of social justice from the perspectives of race, youth, precarious workers, Indigenous peoples, and the LGBTQ community, the contributors...
by Gi-Wook Shin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The period from 1876 to 1946 in Korea marked a turbulent time when the country opened its market to foreign powers, became subject to Japanese colonialism, and was swept into agricultural commercialization, industrialization, and eventually postcolonial revolutionary movements. Gi-Wook Shin examines...
by Hamed Abdel-Samad, Hans Rath
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ein Schlagabtausch zur Lage der Nation. Der eine ist ägyptischer Politikwissenschaftler, der andere deutscher Unterhaltungsautor. Kein Wunder also, dass beide aus ganz unterschiedlichen Richtungen auf die Situation in Deutschland blicken. Persönlich, humorvoll und streitlustig diskutieren Hamed...
When Stereotype Meets Prejudice
Antiziganism in European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Antiziganism is a widespread phenomenon in all European societies. Poor or rich, 'postcommunist' or 'traditional', North or South, with 'lean' or 'thick' welfare systems?all European societies demonstrate antiziganist prejudice. All across Europe Romanis are among the poorest, most destitute, and...
by Allison J. Truitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state. People in Vietnam use the metaphor of "open doors" to describe their everyday experiences of market...
GIs and Fräuleins
The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides...
Monsters and Revolutionaries
Colonial Family Romance and Metissage
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1999
In Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs a political and...
by Janice M. Bogstad
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Bogstad's review of Elizabeth Ann Leonard's collection Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic, Number 74, Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Westport, CT: Greenwood 1997, 95 pp) commends the volume for remarkable feats in the history of science fiction criticism....
Indigenous Visions
Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology
In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now,...
Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End
A political history
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism....