Ethnic category: 7100 books
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus
Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and nationalism contributed to that conflict. The author examines the historiography and politics of the conflict, and the historical,...
Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television...
Race and Nation
Ethnic Systems in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Race and Nation is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This second volume is a companion piece to GRAAT 9 "Ethnic Voices," edited by Claude Julien. It reflects more closely than the first the international participation in our 1991 conference sponsored by the GRAAT of Tours, the CERCA of Orléans and the CETANLA of the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Thanks...
From Many Cultures, One Nation
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Belizean Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Children possess national and ethnic identity, whether or not we want them to, and often that identity includes elements of their own devising.
Since independence, the Belizean government has sought to promote a national Belizean identity by recognizing the cultures of its multiple ethnic groups,...
Political Engagement Amongst Ethnic Minority Young People
Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This book engages with debates on ethnic minority and Muslim young people showing, beyond apathy and violent political extremism, the diverse forms of political engagement in which young people engage.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The peoples of Africa are neither ethnically, culturally, nor religiously homogeneous. European colonial powers took little note of this reality in carving up the continent, a fact reflected in the periodic outbreak of civil war since decolonialization. Likewise, Western European models of development,...
Filipino Americans
Transformation and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1997
When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States.
This interdisciplinary...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system,...
Chinese Indonesians Reassessed
History, Religion and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Chinese in Indonesia form a significant minority of about three percent of the population, and have played a disproportionately important role in the country. Given that Chinese Indonesians are not seen as indigenous to the country and are consistently defined against Indonesian nationalism, most...
Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East
The Case of Tripura
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Tripura in India’s Northeast remains the only region in the world which has sustained a strong left radical political tradition for more than a century, in a context not usually congenial for left politics. Tripura is one of the 29 States in India which has returned the Communist Party of India...
Ethnic Groups of the Americas: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Burning Dislike
Ethnic Violence in High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic...