Ethnic category: 7100 books
Counseling Across and Beyond Cultures
Exploring the Work of Clemmont E. Vontress in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Professional counseling is a dynamic field, necessarily changing to reflect shifting societal norms and client needs. In an increasingly multicultural and globalized society, there is a growing need for counselors to be sensitive to the diverse needs of clients expressing different cultural and ethnic...
Migration and Identity in Central Asia
The Uzbek Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in the capital city of Uzbekistan. The ethnographic details of the book represent post-Soviet urban realities on the ground where various forms of belonging clash and kinship ties are reinforced within social safety networks....
Rethinking Roma
Identities, Politicisation and New Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the emergence, development and implications of the Roma political phenomenon in contemporary Europe. It also challenges the conventional epistemological basis to political claims of distinct Roma people and argues that the contemporary politics...
by Ornette D. Clennon
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s audit on racism in the UK have...
by Jonathan H. X. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history. Chronologically organized, it starts with Chinese immigration to the United States and concludes with coverage of the most recent Asian migrant populations, describing...
JewAsian
Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing constituency of Euro-Canadian Buddhists seriously interested in the faith. This insightful study analyzes...
Mine Okubo
Following Her Own Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
�To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.� - Min� Okubo
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Social Protest in Contemporary China, 2003-2010
Transitional Pains and Regime Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
China's economic transformation has brought with it much social dislocation, which in turn has led to much social protest. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the large-scale mass incidents which have taken place in the last decade. The book analyses these incidents systematically, discussing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The continuation of China’s successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of potential and actual crises, which could, if mishandled, have serious adverse consequences for China. These potential crises are both domestic - where...
by Orunmila's Servant
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
As an English-language manual for IFA priests that provides important translations for the Odus, Orunmila’s Words Don’t Touch the Floor: IFA Odu Synthesis stands as a rarity in the IFA religion. Religious workers have few English resources, and the creative approach taken in this book will heighten...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
Changing Race
Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States.Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as never before. As the United States becomes Latinized, how will Latinos fit into America's divided racial landscape and how will they define...
by R. Singla
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages. This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.