Ethnic category: 7100 books
Theories of Race and Ethnicity
Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues...
Newafricanleaders Contributions of Africans in Birmingham from 1950
Traditional Stories of Africans in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
NewAfricanLeaders interprets the heritage and history of the African community in Birmingham, United Kingdom, exploring both individual and collective achievements and contributions to the recent history of the city. Ebot Ashu researches the stories of Africans in Birmingham and provides in this volume...
Romani Writing
Literacy, Literature and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The Roma (commonly known as "Gypsies") have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group. However, as Romani Writing shows, the Roma have a deep understanding of literacy and its implications, and use writing for a range of different purposes. While some...
Roma in Europe
The Politics of Collective Identity Formation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collective...
by Hemanta Saikia
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The Mising is a major ethnic group of north east India and second largest tribe in Assam. As per 2001 census the Mising constitutes 17.8 percent of the tribal population...
Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football
Historical and Contemporary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through...
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Memoirs of Mo
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
During the last three years of his life, Modesto E. Ellano, Jr. (Mo) wrote this inspiring story of a troubled youth who eventually became a productive and fulfilled man as a university professor, instructing others in the subject and ethics of social work. Growing up in the Depression at a time when...
Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls
Being 'Half' in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities...
The Romani Movement
Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe’s biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been particularly...
Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery
Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the Chinese government’s policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development....
The Bernal Story
Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
For eight years, the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights was
mired in controversy. Traditionally a working-class neighborhood known
for political activism and attention to community concern, Bernal house a
diverse population of Latino, Filipino, and European heritage. The branch
library,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal networks have contributed to Chinese entrepreneurial success. They demonstrate how effective these factors...
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions...
by Clem Seecharan
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Diverse conceptions of India, as homeland, were central to the shaping of Indo-Guyanese identity. An imagined India − part fact, part fantasy − has continually woven into the Indo-Guyanese consciousness a rich, elevating construction of self: an antidote to the deflating image of the ‘coolie’...