Ethnic category: 7100 books
Learning to Be Tibetan
The Construction of Ethnic Identity at Minzu University of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification project to recognize ethnic minorities, which are widely considered as “peripheral,” “barbarian,” “inferior,” “backward,” and “distrusted.”...
by Ching-hwang Yen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon. It was partly the result of the rise of the Four Little Asian Dragons in the 1970s, and was speeded up by the tempo of globalization towards...
Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders
Health and Social Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Provide effective services to ethnic elders with culturally competent training!
Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders: Health and Social Issues provides culture-specific information to health and social work professionals. You will explore distinctive qualities that are found in ten...
The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Economic Liberalization, Mobilizational Resources, and Ethnic Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths...
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion
Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare...
Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia
Ethnic Engineering in Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of...
Inventive Politicians and Ethnic Ascent in American Politics
The Uphill Elections of Italians and Mexicans to the U.S. Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.S. Congress. Analysts today see ethnic politicians largely in relation to their collectivities, but by actually...
Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence
Symbolic Violence, Lynching, Pogrom and Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and one with genuine popularity in society. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence is a theoretical and empirical study which seeks to break the concept of "ethnic violence" into distinguishable types, examining the key question...
by David Gillota
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselves, ethnic humor can work as a site of community building and resistance. In nearly all cases, however, ethnic humor can serve as a window through which...
The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
The controversial work of Amy Chua argues that, as rapid modernization, industrialization, technological change and globalization bring about fundamental changes in national, ethnic and class identities, especially in developing countries, there is a danger that the laissez-faire capitalist system...
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal
Democracy in the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to...
The Ethnic Project
Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that...
The Ethnic Penalty
Immigration, Education and the Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calculus of push and pull factors has motivated this increase, one of the main impetuses for this migration has been the search for employment, better wages...