Ethnic category: 7100 books
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization. Compared with many other nations, the transition from authoritarian rule occurred in a rather orderly fashion. Group consciousness emerged as a reaction to the decades-long suppression of cultural diversity under martial law as different...
by Jennifer Ho
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian...
Ethnic Angst
A Comparative Study of Bapsi Sidhwa & Rohinton Mistry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book is one of the rare books that delves into the psyche of the Parsi community, their culture and anxieties. The book takes into consideration all these aspects reflected in the fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Rohinton Mistry. Meticulous style, deep critical insights into the literary, critical,...
Contested Belonging
An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. When the area came under British rule and was converted into tea...
by Torsten Tschacher
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-seller provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross‐cultural psychology. The book’s unique critical thinking framework, including Critical Thinking boxes,...
Modeling Minority Women
Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.
by Geoff Hamilton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979,...
by John C. Trafny
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
The Polish Community of Gary is a vibrantly illustrated tale of the history of the Midwest's Steel City and its Polish-Catholic residents. It reveals the journey of hopeful and hard-working Polish immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s, established an ethnic community, and adapted to the American...
Mexico's Cinema
A Century of Film and Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers is...
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Color Behind Bars: Racism in the U.S. Prison System [2 volumes]
Racism in the U.S. Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
A diverse, critical analysis of racial and ethnic disparities within the American criminal justice system that encourages critical thinking by providing various sides to the issues.
• Presents a historical examination of racial and ethnic influences in the early formation of the criminal...
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes...