Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Christian Karner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity.
Combining theories of the everyday with...
Cities of Others
Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported. Since Abe returned to power in 2012, the recrudescence of nationalism under his leadership has...
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media
Diasporic Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes...
It's All In The Frijoles
100 Famous Latinos Share Real Life Stories Time Tested Dichos Favorite Folkta
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Do you wish you could remember all the words to the childhood songs your grandmother taught you, so you could sing them to your children? Have you ever found yourself repeating the dichos, or proverbs, your parents used to lecture you with? If you are looking for a way to get back in touch with your...
Muncie, India(na)
Middletown and Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie...
Amy Tan
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
In the mid–1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan’s work—once pigeonholed as ethnic literature—resonates with universal themes...
by Jacob Bacall
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Chaldeans (pronounced Kal-de�an) are a distinct ethnic group from present-day Iraq with roots stretching back to Abraham, the biblical patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam who was from the �Ur of the Chaldees.� Chaldeans are Catholic, with their own patriarch, and they speak a dialect...
Issei, Nisei, War Bride
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service Evelyn Nakano Glenn "A richly detailed and sophisticated examination of...how historical and economic forces restricted women's lives and how women devised strategies for dealing with their plight." --Canadian Woman Studies...
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Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events,...
by Sander Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles...
Museums in China
Power, Politics and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence...
by Richard A. Santillán, José M. Alamillo, Anna Bermúdez
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Mexican American Baseball in Ventura County pays tribute to the legendary teams and players from Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Santa Paula, and other surrounding neighborhoods. From the early 20th century through the 1950s, baseball in Ventura County safeguarded opportunities...
Living in the Ottoman Realm
Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire’s existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals,...