Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Luis Quiros
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
An Others Mind is a landmark and brilliant piece of research on Social Policy and its relationship with covert and overt institutional racism. Professor Quiros addresses everyday racism in corporate America, not-for-profit agencies and academic settings. It is written with a combination of depth and...
Claiming Home, Shaping Community
Testimonios de los valles
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
To offer testimonio is inherently political, a vehicle that counters the hegemony of the state and illuminates the repression and denial of human rights. Claiming Home, Shaping Community shares testimonios from and about the lives of Mexican-origin people who left the rural, agricultural Imperial...
Latinos at the Golden Gate
Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city's story since its beginning. Charting the...
by Stephen M. Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. From the planning and construction of community centers, to volunteering at health fairs or...
Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers
Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate...
Christianity in China
A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals...
Samkara's Advaita Vedanta
A Way of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought...
by Denise O’Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This story tells of the authors experience as a teaching volunteer in Ghana, Africa, and how this experience affected her as a person and her outlook on relationships between black and white people. It looks at the education system in Africa, the process of setting up an NGO, and difficulties in adapting...
by Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Edward William Lane, Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China
An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-Shed Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes. In land villages, mostly given to farming, people lived in permanent houses, whereas on the margins of the waterways many people...
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia
Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
The East African Revival
History and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo, highlighting its impact on spirituality, political discourse...
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan
A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1998
First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
Religious Pluralism in Punjab
A Contemporary Account of Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book analyses the heterogeneous modes of meditation, prayer, initiation, beliefs and practices, codes of conduct, ethics and life-style of the contemporary Sikh Sants, Babas, Gurus and Satgurus in Punjab.