Ethnic category: 7100 books
Samurai among Panthers
Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and ’70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the...
Love Imagined
A Mixed Race Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota...
by Bhavna Dave
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has...
by Maceo Montoya
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to...
Making Hispanics
How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics....
Hijas Americanas
Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas.
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Ethno-symbolism and Nationalism
A Cultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Anthony D. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, and is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies. Anthony Smith has developed an approach to the study of nations and nationalism called ethno-symbolism,...
by Tomas Balkelis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country’s first African American president — an event foreseen...
We Took the Streets
Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Young Lords were one of the most provocative and controversial organizations to arise during the tumult of the late 1960s. Inspired by the wave of protest movements sweeping the country, and the world, as well as organizations like the Black Panthers, the Brown Berets, and the American Indian...
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and...
Law and Society in Malaysia
Pluralism, Religion and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary examination of law and legal institutions in Malaysia. It examines legal issues from historical, social, and political perspectives, and discusses the role of law in relation to Malaysian multiculturalism, religion, politics, and society. It shows...
by Barbara Tornquist-Plewa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor...
The History of the Seljuq Turks
The Saljuq-nama of Zahir al-Din Nishpuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Nishapuri flourished in the 12th century and wrote a succinct history in Persian of the Saljuq Turks, a tribal group from Central Asia who in the 11th century established a vast empire, enduring for some century and a half and bringing about lasting changes to the ethnic composition and the patterns of land utilisation in the northern tier of the M