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Assisted Dying
An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues that...
Diversity and Society
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Adapted from Joseph F. Healey and Eileen O’Brien’s bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this brief and accessible text presents a unified sociological frame of reference to help students analyze minority-dominant relations in the U.S. Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,...
Asian America
A Primary Source Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to...
Child Security in Asia
The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Millions of children around the world are affected by conflict, and the enduring aftermath of war in post-conflict societies. This book reflects on the implications of children’s insecurity for governments and the international humanitarian community by drawing on original field research in post-conflict...
Focusing on the Underserved
Immigrant, Refugee, and Indigenous Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Recent discussions and dissemination of information regarding the rapid growth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across our nation are creating some awareness among administrators and educators in higher education institutions regarding the extensive diversity of AAPIs, the struggles...
Migrant Imaginaries
Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through...
Contemporary Asian America (third edition)
A Multidisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Who are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian...
The Mexican American Family
Tradition and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.
South Asians on the U.S. Screen
Just Like Everyone Else?
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about this group? How do advancements in visual media, from creative storytelling to streaming technology, inform changing dynamics of all non-white media representations...
Latinos in American Society
Families and Communities in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in...
by Carlton Munson, Tricia Bent-Goodley
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Critical analyses of policies that significantly affect African-American families and communities!
African-American Social Workers and Social Policy is the first book of its kind to combine the voices of African-American social work professionals on social policy in one volume. You'll learn...
Celebrating Diversity
Coexisting in a Multicultural Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society, offers pragmatic ways to replace conflictive behaviors between diverse peoples with coexistence alternatives. Coexistence-partnership values and skills help us to outgrow ways of the past--competition, suspicion, manipulation, isolation,...
The Diaspora Strikes Back
Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...
Latin Numbers
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
*Latin Numbers *is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular...