Ethnic category: 7100 books
Barrios to Burbs
The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the...
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch
Indian American Christianity in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Winner, 2018 Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Traces the religious adaptation of members of an important Indian Christian church– the Mar Thoma denomination – as they make their way in the United States.
This book exposes...
White Ethnic New York
Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive...
The Second Generation
Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
An indispensable reference that will help students understand the major ethnic conflicts that dominate the headlines and shape the modern world.
• Presents comprehensive coverage of ethnic conflicts that enables readers to comprehend recent events around the world
• Contains updates...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This unique text examines a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. The contributors present a rich set of case studies of the key Latin American, Asian American, and Middle Eastern American ethnic communities that comprise the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case...
Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism
De-Centering China
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project,...
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2007
This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people,...
The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka
Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist...
Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia
Russians and Non-Russians in the North Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this...
Opposite Poles
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined...
Language, Identity and Conflict
A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the...
Ethnicity and Religion
Intersections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and ethnicity...
Equality and Cultural Capital for Ethnic Minorities
Embarking on the Path of Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In response to the growing concern in a wider community regarding sense of belonging, community cohesion and integration, intolerance, civic irresponsibility, and a degree of hostility that a growing number of people face, the study has had to answer a number of interrelated questions about what qualities...