Ethnic category: 7100 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism. It offers an original perspective on British multiculturalism and also presents an exploration of the politics of ethnic diversity in all the national contexts of the British Isles as well as the United Kingdom.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Boundaries - demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups - constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation.
It is especially with regard to disciplinary pluralism and historical breadth that this book most clearly departs and distinguishes...
Obama and the biracial factor
The battle for a new American majority
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial...
Ethnic Conflict in Developing Societies
Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Fiji, and Suriname
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries. The study focuses on Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and Fiji. This project looks at the mechanisms, which vary from legislation to political structures, systems,...
Three Roads to Magdalena
Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred...
Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia
Provincial Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of states is a critical area of study.
Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states grapple with questions of territorial...
Desis In The House
Indian American Youth Culture In Nyc
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the...
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Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceaneras [3 volumes]
From Calaveras to Quinceañeras
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In the last decade, the Latina/o population has established itself as the fastest growing ethnic group within the United States, and constitutes one of the largest minority groups in the nation. While the different Latina/o groups do have cultural commonalities, there are also many differences among...
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo. This story is based on ideology rather than on truth, yet ideology is the foundation for the U.S. American cultural memory that underwrites official history. The Alamo, as a narrative of national progress, supports the heroic acts that have created...
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal
Identities and Mobilization after 1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist mobilization...
Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities of Pakistan
Constitutional and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Examines the issues facing indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, including their role in the nation's constitutional and legal developments, and makes a number of recommendations which would satisfy their demands without compromising the sovereignty of the state.
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume...