Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Theresa Barron-McKeagney
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto “Beto” Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist....
Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s
The Return of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This title was first published in 1988: In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social and spiritual milieu in which they were created. He describes the turning point in Japanese thinking about the nature and limitations of a Western-oriented...
Japan and Britain after 1859
Creating Cultural Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West...
The Children of Chinatown
Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.
Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a...
Czech American Bibliography
A Comprehensive Listing with Focus on the Us and with Appendices on Czechs in Canada and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
This is a comprehensive bibliography of publications relating to Czechs in America, from the earliest time since the discovery of the New World to date, covering their settlement, community life and their contributions to their host country. Although emphasis is on English titles, including books,...
Lost in Translation
Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather...
by Nishikawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Japonisme in Britain
Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world...
''Being Black''
At the Sharp Point
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
My book is an autobiography of my life. It shows the up and downs of the Black Man living in a society in which he really has no great impact on his way of living, outside of getting an education, and trying to be an upright man. There were some good and bad times in my life, some of which I had no...
Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival
Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
On April 30, 1975, the Hanoi government of North Vietnam took control over the South. South Vietnamese, particularly "intellectuals" and those thought to have been associated with the previous regime, underwent terrible punishment, persecution and "re-education." Seeking their...
My (Underground) American Dream
My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A National Bestseller!
What does an undocumented immigrant look like? What kind of family must she come from? How could she get into this country? What is the true price she must pay to remain in the United States?
JULISSA ARCE knows firsthand that the most common, preconceived answers...
Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien
A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around...
Between Worlds
The Making of an American Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, may be the most charismatic figure in the Democratic Party today and one of its best natural politicians whose name isn't Bill Clinton. He is the man Colin Powell has called for advice, and the man George Stephanopoulos once called the Red Adair of diplomacy...
Dreaming Forward
Latino Voices Enhance the Mosaic
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Martha captures the spirit and vibrancy of our community in the most authentic, inspiring and thought provoking manner possible. By telling stories of struggle, perserverance and triumph, she breathes life into everyday joy human beings have at their fingertips when we listen to and value our life...