Minority Studies category: 588 books
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
Mine Okubo
Following Her Own Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
�To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.� - Min� Okubo
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An Absent Presence
Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline...
The Public Image of the Immigrant in Italy
An Inquiry into Public Opinion of Immigrant Involvement in Crime and Immigrant Policy Related Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The original empirical research studies contained in this book represent a series of social science inquiries aimed at measuring public opinion of immigrant involvement in crime as well as opinions on certain aspects of immigrant policies in Italy. Each of the three original research empirical studies...
Impossible Purities
Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of “Englishness” as white, masculine, and pure and “Americanness” as black, feminine, and impure. Brody’s readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and...
Racist America
Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...
The Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans...
by Xiaowei Zang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...
A Different Mirror for Young People
A History of Multicultural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant...
Dirty Laundry
Coloreds and Whites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.
Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the...
Why I Am so Proud to Be a Black Man
The Many Reasons to Uplift and Celebrate Our Uniqueness in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the beginning, when God created the black man, He gave all his wisdom to his first creations without boundaries and fears. Unfortunately, for far too long, black men have been portrayed negatively in our society and by the daily rhetoric that surrounds us. In their comprehensive study compiled...
Anti-Muslim Prejudice
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes,...
Philip Vera Cruz
A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera...