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by Perdana Leadership Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
National Unity. What does it mean? How does a nation achieve it? This was the topic of discussion at the debut Perdana Discourse Series that took place in Malaysia on 23rd August 2004.
In this monograph, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, speaks on the policies that the...
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book Prize
This book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the book is to examine participants’ conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how...
21st Century Urban Race Politics
Representing Minorities as Universal Interests
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucasian cities and draws on case studies in cities throughout the United States. The aim of this volume is to take stock of what we know about the advantages...
Between Mao and McCarthy
Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York.
Between Mao and McCarthy looks...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity,...
by Maria Jaschok, Shui Jingjun Shui
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin...
China Studies in the Philippines
Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
As China Studies has grown as a discipline, it has also tended to be dominated by the major international powers, particularly China itself, and the USA. It is important to remember, however, that there is a rich and diverse history of China Studies elsewhere, especially in Southeast Asia. The Philippines...
Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese...
Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan
Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically successful nation regarded as prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nation with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, new forms of inequality are...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by...
Race, Ethnicity and Football
Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the volume addresses a wide variety of...
Melungeon Portraits
Exploring Kinship and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons—a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins—remains controversial. Who is Melungeon, how do we know...
by Craig Considine
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This installment in the critically acclaimed Contemporary Debates series uses evidence-based documentation to provide a full and impartial examination of beliefs and claims made about Muslim individuals, families, and communities in the United States.
• Provides evidence-based information...
Griffintown
Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. Once a destination for many from the Emerald Isle, Montreal saw Irish immigration dwindle in the late nineteenth century. Irish culture...