Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Marc Simon Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual education.
Rethinking the Chicano Movement...
by Franklin J. Franco
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican...
Happily Hippie
Meet a Modern Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity rethinks hippies. Hippiedom didnt die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedoms ethnogenesis. Well learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped...
Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia
Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Identity politics can impede Chinese identification in southeast Asia because the migrant population, particularly the intellectual aspect of that population, have to consider the political effects of their intellectual and social activities on the survival of Chinese communities. Similarly, these...
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Readings in Louisiana Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
The detectable identity of southern Louisiana's one-of-a-kind culture has been expressed in numerous descriptive phrases--"south of the South," "the northern tip of the Caribbean," "this folklore land." A strange, piquant, and savory mixture, it also has been likened to one of the region's signature...
Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora
Everyday Anti-racism in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today. In Australia, Filipino settlement is markedly framed by the country’s on-going nation-building project that continues to racialise immigrants and delineate the possibilities and limits of belonging to the national community.
This...
Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book provides the first systematic analysis of peace-building in Central Asia for inter-ethnic conflicts over water and land in the Ferghana Valley based on concrete, in-depth and on-site investigation.
The core analysis centres on peace-building projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and...
by Donna Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in...
Multicultural Psychology
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Multicultural Psychology introduces students to the myriad ways in which multicultural issues affect our understanding of, and research in, a wide range of domains including biological, developmental, social, and clinical psychological science. It provides in-depth coverage of the largest groups of...
Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples
Theories and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Go beyond cookie-cutter therapy and interventions to provide culturally relevant therapy that works for your clients in interracial relationships!
With this book, you'll explore an array of relational issues faced by various configurations of interracial couples. Then you'll learn specific...
Fathers Across Cultures: The Importance, Roles, and Diverse Practices of Dads
The Importance, Roles, and Diverse Practices of Dads
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Interest in the role of the father and his influence on children's development and economic well-being has grown considerably. This edited volume uses detailed accounts to provide culturally situated analysis of fathering in cultures around the world. The book's contributors, a multidisciplinary group...
Mexican American Children and Families
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Offering new insight on Mexican American culture and families, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population. Contributors from psychology, education, health, and social science review recent quantitative and qualitative literature on Mexican Americans. Using current...
Lotus among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Unlike most Chinese-American studies which focus on large urban concentrations sustained by continuous immigration, this study centers on a small Chinese enclave located in a rural Southern biracial society. It focuses upon three generations of Chinese undergoing social change in an area within the state...
Minority Rules
The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2000
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven...