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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This interdisciplinary anthology contains a collection of materials, including personal accounts, analyses of historical and/or current events, and legal rulings told through the lens of various racial or ethnic groups living in the United States. Included are discussions of housing and neighborhoods, recreation and work, crime, education, and politics.
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare
Reflections on Cultural Competency
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One...
Gypsy Stigma and Exclusion in Turkey, 1970
The Social Dynamics of Exclusionary Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Using an oral history approach, this book draws on Gypsy and non-Gypsy narratives to tell the story of Gypsy forced dislocation from Bayramic, a northwestern town of Turkey, in 1970. Gül Özatesler examines memory construction, the categories of Gypsyness and Turkishness, and the different perspectives...
London the Promised Land Revisited
The Changing Face of the London Migrant Landscape in the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, the...
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
The Other Side of Assimilation...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Navid Kermani – author, journalist and academic – is one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Germany today. Kermani has been at the forefront of recent debates about Islam and its role in Germany’s political, social and cultural life. Instead of emphasizing the differences between...
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia
Malaysianet
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement...
by Betty Mackune-Karrer, Kenneth Hardy, George Saba
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Minorities and Family Therapy highlights the work of experienced, sensitive clinicians who, along with minority families, have found creative solutions to the problems minority families present.
Until now, the field of family therapy has paid little attention to the specific clinical needs...
Citizenship in European Cities
Immigrants, Local Politics and Integration Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
There are relatively few books that provide comparative analysis of European cities in relation to immigrants and political participation. This fresh and insightful volume, from the same team that published Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities in 2001, analyzes how the...
This Land Is My Land
We Left but a Mystery Grave
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This Land is My Land is a historical fictional story about the life and adventures of the soldiers, artisans, and clergy under the leadership of Hidalgo Don Hernando De Soto beginning in the year of 1538 and coming to a tiring end in 1542. The theme illustrates the difficulty of men and women in the...
Straight A's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to their...
Korean American Women
Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, ethnic...
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual...
Dis-Orienting Planets
Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
With contributions by:
Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy...