Ethnic category: 7100 books
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia
A Comparative Regional Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book examines the impact of the federal restructuring of Ethiopia on ethnic conflicts.
The adoption of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia was closely related with the problem of creating a state structure that could be used as instrument of managing the complex ethno-linguistic diversity of...
Beyond Colorblind
Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
• 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Racial Reconciliation
• 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist
For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity...
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism
Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity...
Playing the Races
Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick...
by Juri Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The book is the first of its kind in using the methodology of Comparative Literature to look at ethnographic fiction written in different regional languages of India.
The issue of cultural identity of writers has often been seen as a simple case of a one-to-one relationship between the writer...
by Stephen M. Magu
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of National...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume, the second in the Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action series, examines civil society in South Asia through case studies of different kinds of ethnic ('communal') activism. With chapters covering Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India (Darjeeling, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu), it avoids...
Ethnic Studies Research
Approaches and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Study of ethnic groups and race relations have always existed in the academy, primarily in the areas of sociology and anthropology. However, grassroots movements for ethnic studies programs and departments came about with very different agendas for the study of these groups. It is surprising, then,...
Japanese American Ethnicity
In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a...
Economic Development in China's Northwest
Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic development,...
Autobiography in Black and Brown
Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography: Black Boy and Brown. Wright was a radical left winger, while Rodriguez is widely viewed as a reactionary. Despite...
Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain
The dynamics of diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
As debates around ethnic identity and inequality gain both political and media interest, this important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain. While providing a comprehensive...
Virtual Ethnicity
Race, Resistance and the World Wide Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Where is the ethnic minority presence in cyberspace? In this book, Linda Leung makes a pioneering exploration of ethnic minority presence in cyberspace. She finds that despite the apparent white, Western, male, middle class profile of cyberspace, there is significant ethnic minority activity. The...