Ethnic category: 7100 books
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan
Beyond Islam and Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian clientalism.’ This book offers comparative, historicist,...
by Stephen P. Haluszczak
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Originally known as Ruthenians, Ukrainians began to immigrate to western Pennsylvania in the late 1800s. Attracted by the region�s growing importance as an industrial center, they settled in cities and towns close to their work. Like other immigrants, they faced many economic and social hardships,...
On Strike and on Film
Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952....
Aztlán Arizona
Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements against the backdrop of broad societal shifts that...
Mike Torrez
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much...
by Mark A. Ocegueda, Terry A. Cannon, Richard A. Santillan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire celebrates the thriving culture of former teams from Pomona, Ontario, Cucamonga, Chino, Claremont, San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Corona, Beaumont, and the Coachella Valley. From the early 20th century through the 1950s, baseball diamonds in the Inland...
Shades of Difference
Why Skin Color Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
The Middle Class in Neoliberal China
Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
Igbo in the Atlantic World
African Origins and Diasporic Destinations
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience...
Many Colors
Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population. Instead, they'll be the largest minority group in a country made up entirely of minorities, followed by Hispanic Americans, African...
Politics in Malaysia
The Malay Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community.
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Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian...
Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah
Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity Among the Hui of Qinghai Province
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The global spread of Islamic movements and the ascendance of a Chinese state that limits religious freedom have aroused anxieties about integrating Islam and protecting religious freedom around the world. Focusing on violent movements like the so-called Islamic State and Uygur separatists in China’s...