Ethnic category: 7100 books
Cultural Exclusion in China
State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...
by Cynthia Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia. It considers the impact of ethnicity, socio-economic status, and school experiences and achievement. It discusses the effects of Malaysia’s ethnic affirmative...
The Ethno-Narcotic Politics of the Shan People
Fighting with Drugs, Fighting for the Nation on the Thai–Burmese Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book proposes the alternative explanation on the pattern of ethnic conflict, especially the on-going civil war in Myanmar. Previously, most scholars accepted that narcotics play the crucial role in conflict as the resource of revenues. However, this book dramatically changes what we have ever...
Living at the Edge of Thai Society
The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological...
Dialogues across Diasporas
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
Song and Silence
Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
In the sunny, subtropical Sipsongpanna region, Tai Lues perform flirtatious, exoticized dances for an increasingly growing tourist trade. Endorsed by Chinese officials, who view the Tai Lues as a "model minority," these staged performances are part of a carefully sanctioned ethnic policy....
Racetalk
Racism Hiding in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Studying racism is challenging. Most people avoid publicly expressing racialized comments in fear of being labeled racist. Much public talk is sugar coated and coded to distance the speaker from the racist message. This study captures behind the scenes commentary—racetalk—that degrades people...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
Insider Research on Migration and Mobility
International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
With an increasing proportion of migration and mobility field studies being conducted by migrants and members of ethnic minorities in 'home' contexts, the implications of 'insider research' are increasingly subject critical scrutiny. Researchers who may share migration experiences or cultural, ethnic,...
Identity and Integration
Migrants in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Symbolic boundaries, cultural differences and ethnic conflicts have gained significance and new meanings in a global situation characterized by the dissolution of traditional political and societal structures. Communications and political and economic interactions increasingly cross the borders of...
Racialised Gang Rape and the Reinforcement of Dominant Order
Discourses of Gender, Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This path-breaking book provides a comparative analysis of public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised racialised gang rapes that occurred during the early to mid-2000s. These rapes led to intense public debate in both countries regarding an apparent ‘gang rape phenomenon’...
Ethnicity and Racism in Cyprus
National Pride and Prejudice?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Investigating the relationship between ethnic pride and prejudice in the divided community of Cyprus, this book focuses on the ethnic stereotypes that Greek and Turkish Cypriot secondary school students develop of each other and other ethnic groups in Cyprus.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Many geographically diverse regions in the world contain a rich variety of cultures within them. While some have many socio-cultural similarities, tensions can still arise to make such areas unstable and vulnerable. Intercultural Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Asia is a critical reference source for...
Migrants and Identity in Japan and Brazil
The Nikkeijin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the 20th century caused many Japanese to emigrate to Brazil. The situation was reversed in the 1980s as a result of economic downturn in Brazil and labour shortages in Japan. This book examines the construction and reconstruction of the ethnic identities...