Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Vivek Bald
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
Great Fortune Dream
The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-19966
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In 1858, gold was discovered in the Fraser River. News of this discovery travelled to the Pearl River Delta, where, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars, many Chinese sought to escape the poverty, overcrowding, political unrest and even slavery—invaders from western Asia captured and shipped many...
Wives, Husbands, and Lovers
Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as Asia's century, this book turns to the more intimate...
Japanese and American Horror
A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures—American and Japanese—with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects....
American Inquisition
The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian...
Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research
Transcending the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Written by leading scholars and including a foreword by the Dalai Lama, this book explores the interface between Buddhist studies and the uses of Buddhist principles and practices in psychotherapy and consciousness studies. The contributors present a compelling collection of articles that illustrate...
by Bathhouse Blues
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
For all the talk about achieving equality in mainstream society, the gay community doesn’t always practice what it preaches. Which is the never discussed, but always present, racism that is wide-spread in gay circles. Ironic as this is a group that has fought for equal rights. While at the same...
Transnational Sport
Gender, Media, and Global Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Based on ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles, Transnational Sport tells how sports shape experiences of global Koreanness, and how those experiences are affected by national cultures. Rachael Miyung Joo focuses on superstar Korean athletes and sporting events produced for transnational...
Tracking the Weretiger
Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and “little tigers,” or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work...
God's New Whiz Kids?
Korean American Evangelicals on Campus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard, Asian Americans constitute 70% of the Harvard...
by Sand
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Poor Relations
The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration...
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia
Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists,...