Ethnic category: 7100 books
Chinese Middle Classes
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and China
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The formation and characteristics of a nation’s middle class are shaped by historical context and the developmental path that has been followed. However, can the same be said of the ethnic Chinese middle classes in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Macao? Given the divergent political and economic experiences...
Desi Divas
Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam,...
Islamophobia and Securitization
Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book explores everyday realities of young Muslim women in Britain, who are portrayed as antithetical to the British way of life in media and political discourse. The book captures how geo-political events, and national tragedies continue to implicate individuals and communities at the domestic...
Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia
Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British Raj, their presence complicates the traditional binary through which British imperialism is viewed – of ruler...
Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System
An Afrocentric Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism. This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred vision and did not put the interests of the African...
Chicano Rap
Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. Although the first rappers were African Americans, rap and hip hop culture quickly spread to other ethnic groups who have added their own cultural elements...
Desis Divided
The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing immigrant...
The Colour of Our Future
Does Race Matter In Post-Apartheid South Africa?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness which recognises racialised identities while affirming that, as human beings, we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities.
The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and...
An Ethics of Betrayal
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh...
by María Eugenia Verdaguer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguer explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical spaces....
Textiles and Clothing of Việt Nam
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Việt Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities—such as the Chăm and Thái—many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditions linked to antiquity. The tight-fitting tunic called áo dài, widely recognized as a national symbol, has its roots in the country’s 2,000–year...
Unmeltable Ethnics
Politics and Culture in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry....
Critical Issues in Contemporary China
Unity, Stability and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China.
Organized around three interrelated themes of unity, stability and development, each chapter explores distinct issues and debate their significance...
China's Local Administration
Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government – which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments – is often overlooked. The themes of China’s local administrative hierarchy, and its historical...