Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book provides the first systematic analysis of peace-building in Central Asia for inter-ethnic conflicts over water and land in the Ferghana Valley based on concrete, in-depth and on-site investigation.
The core analysis centres on peace-building projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and...
Minority Rules
The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2000
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven...
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In recent years, the media has attributed the surge of people eagerly studying family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. New genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry...
Discriminating Sex
White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy...
Identity, Violence and Power
Mobilising Hatred, Demobilising Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions. The authors show how identity is created through shared social practices and how it is transformed when collective violence disrupts...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah
Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity Among the Hui of Qinghai Province
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The global spread of Islamic movements and the ascendance of a Chinese state that limits religious freedom have aroused anxieties about integrating Islam and protecting religious freedom around the world. Focusing on violent movements like the so-called Islamic State and Uygur separatists in China’s...
Assisted Dying
An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues that...
Contemporary Asian America (third edition)
A Multidisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Who are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian...
by Tony Shome
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book demonstrates how particular values and 'notions of leadership', which underpinned traditional Malay leadership, have played a crucial role in the political evolution of the modern Malaysian nation. The author discusses the nature of Malay 'notions of leadership', and considers this throughout...
The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader...
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had suffered...
Sport, Difference and Belonging
Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...
Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan
Naming China
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Following the move by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomingtang (KMT) to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1940s, and Chiang’s subsequent lifelong vow to reclaim the mainland, "China " has occupied—if not monopolized—the...