Ethnic category: 7100 books
Diasporas and Transnationalisms
The Journey of the Komagata Maru
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Komagata Maru incident has become central to ongoing debates on Canadian racism, immigration, multiculturalism, citizenship and Indian nationalist resistance. The chapters presented in this book, written by established and emerging historians and scholars in literary, cultural, religious, immigration...
Normalizing the Balkans
Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality...
Human Exhibitions
Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions...
An Enduring Legacy
The Story Of Basques In Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In this volume, brothers Mark and John Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, resulting in an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheepherders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community of today.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
When The Vertical Mosaic first appeared in 1965, it became an instant classic. Its key message was that Canada was not the classless democracy it fancied itself to be. In fact, Canada was a highly inegalitarian society comprising a ‘vertical mosaic’ of distinct classes and ethnic groups. This...
The Intertwined Conflict
The Difference Between Culture and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
This book looks into the different aspects of Islam and culture, and how culture rather than Islam is affecting Muslims, today. It will examine the conflict between Islamic values, and social and culture ones. How Islam has always seen as a religion of oppression and terrorism through the Western...
All the Nations Under Heaven
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
First published in 1996, All the Nations Under Heaven has earned praise and a wide readership for its unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience...
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In recent years, the media has attributed the surge of people eagerly studying family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. New genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry...
Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups, and they have won seats in local and state...
The Good Governor
Robert Ray and the Indochinese Refugees of Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes. The Tai Dam, an ethnic group from northern Vietnam, campaigned for sanctuary, writing letters to 30 U.S. governors in 1975. Only Robert D. Ray of Iowa agreed to...
The Public Life of Australian Multiculturalism
Building a Diverse Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book argues that in a globalising world in which nation-states have to manage population flows and intensifying cultural diversity within their borders, multicultural policy and approaches have never been more important. The author takes an extended case study approach, examining Australia’s...
A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore
The Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability 1872-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice and discrimination that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today,...
Putin's Olympics
The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true...
Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships...