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Chinese Television and National Identity Construction
The Cultural Politics of Music-Entertainment Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book examines music entertainment programmes on China Central Television, China’s only national level television network, as well as on nationally-available provincial channels, exploring how such programmes project a nuanced image of China’s identity and position in the world. It shows how...
The Latina Advantage
Gender, Race, and Political Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet...
Hip Hop Desis
South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young “hip hop desis” express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities...
Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years.
Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan�s...
by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Based on interviews with people throughout Siberia, Central Asia and European Russia about their spiritual experiences, this book brings together insights into the 'religious' worldview of those who claim to be Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, pagan or even 'atheist'. Throughout the ex-Soviet Union peoples...
The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Americanization, De-Americanization, and Racialized Ethnic Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?
by Vincent Peloso
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. During the colonial era, racial and ethnic identities...
The Future of Singapore
Population, Society and the Nature of the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines this...
Minorities and Media
Producers, Industries, Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia. The book places the voices of minorities at its centre, moving beyond a study of only representation and engaging with minority media producers, industries and audiences. Drawing on a diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics, or simply because of the sound application of good business practice, is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business, management and economic development...
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Revisiting the boat people
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee era...
Tremors of Violence
Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western India
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
This book is an ethnographic study of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in Mumbai and two major cities of Gujarat. Based on narratives of and interviews with Muslim men and women, it tries to understand the world and worldviews of those who have seen and lived through one or several violent confrontations...
Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a Response to the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.
Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images...
Minorities and the Modern Arab World
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the...