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The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader...
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had suffered...
Navigating Ethnicity
Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent...
Construction of Chinese Nationalism in the Early 21st Century
Domestic Sources and International Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Chinese nationalism is powered by a narrative of China's century of shame and humiliation in the hands of imperialist powers and calls for the Chinese government to redeem the past humiliations and take back all "lost territories." The continuing surge of Chinese nationalism in the early...
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
“Compelling new evidence, careful documentation, and an artfully woven narrative make The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis a path-breaking book for sociocultural scholars as well as for general readers interested in the politics of identity, ethnicity, gender, and the colonial and U.S. Western history.”—Transforming...
Sport, Difference and Belonging
Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...
Newafricanleaders Contributions of Africans in Birmingham from 1950
Traditional Stories of Africans in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
NewAfricanLeaders interprets the heritage and history of the African community in Birmingham, United Kingdom, exploring both individual and collective achievements and contributions to the recent history of the city. Ebot Ashu researches the stories of Africans in Birmingham and provides in this volume...
Spanish-Language Television in the United States
Fifty Years of Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influence through the 21st century. This book traces U.S. Spanish-language television’s development from...
Asian Americans in Michigan
Voices from the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While the number of Asians in Michigan was small for a good portion of the state’s history, many Asian-derived communities have settled in the area and grown significantly over time. In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one...
Asian American Youth
Culture, Identity and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book explores developments in the countries of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – since the EU included the region in the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2003. It considers issues related to energy, ethnic conflict, steps towards regional integration, and, above all,...
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia
An Unsung (R)evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society...
Indian Immigrant Women and Work
The American experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of desperation,...
by Salvatore J. LaGumina
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
In America �the streets were paved with gold.� That was the mistaken notion of many an immigrant to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. On Long Island, deluded sojourners from Italy were to find that in fact there were few streets and that they themselves were to be the ones to build...