Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Burning Dislike
Ethnic Violence in High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic...
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
Racetalk
Racism Hiding in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Studying racism is challenging. Most people avoid publicly expressing racialized comments in fear of being labeled racist. Much public talk is sugar coated and coded to distance the speaker from the racist message. This study captures behind the scenes commentary—racetalk—that degrades people...
Identity and Integration
Migrants in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Symbolic boundaries, cultural differences and ethnic conflicts have gained significance and new meanings in a global situation characterized by the dissolution of traditional political and societal structures. Communications and political and economic interactions increasingly cross the borders of...
Islam and China's Hong Kong
Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...
by Anne Gillespie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. From before statehood, Swedish immigrants flooded into the small frontier towns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Encouraged by agents who promised inexpensive and fertile farmland, they came by the thousands. By the...
by Haslyn Parris
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Parris Electoral Conjectures and Governance in Guyana examines the inappropriateness of treating Guyana as a society characterised by ethnic differences. Author Haslyn Parris, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana, outlines his thoughts on the electoral system in Guyana and the ways in which...
Apple Pie and Enchiladas
Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The sudden influx of significant numbers of Latinos to the rural Midwest stems from the recruitment of workers by food processing plants and small factories springing up in rural areas. Mostly they work at back-breaking jobs that local residents are not willing to take because of the low wages and few...
Japanese Cinema and Otherness
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Japaneseness
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study examines the representation of so-called Others – foreigners, ethnic minorities, and Okinawans – in...
Of Forests and Fields
Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers,...
Democracy's Promise
Immigrants and American Civic Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of...
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back”...
Learning to be Chinese American
Community, Education, and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Learning to Be Chinese American aims at exploring the complicated identity production process among Chinese immigrants in the United States in relation to the rapidly changing global and local contexts. Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle class Chinese American community,...
by Alfonso Pérez-Agote
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Translated by Cameron Watson and William A. Douglass. Foreword by William A. Douglass. The Basque people have preserved their ethnic identity and sense of themselves as a separate community despite centuries of repression, diaspora, and economic and social upheaval—one of the most remarkable achievements...