Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Rethinking Roma
Identities, Politicisation and New Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the emergence, development and implications of the Roma political phenomenon in contemporary Europe. It also challenges the conventional epistemological basis to political claims of distinct Roma people and argues that the contemporary politics...
by Jonathan H. X. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history. Chronologically organized, it starts with Chinese immigration to the United States and concludes with coverage of the most recent Asian migrant populations, describing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing constituency of Euro-Canadian Buddhists seriously interested in the faith. This insightful study analyzes...
Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia
New Games Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The peoples of Greater Central Asia – not only Inner Asian states of Soviet Union but also those who share similar heritages in adjacent countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran, and the Chinese province of Xinjiang – have been drawn into more direct and immediate contact since the Soviet...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This collection provides an overview of some of the most relevant concepts in the study of the language of inclusion and exclusion, specifically with a view to the functioning of nation-state categories. Categorizations, words, and phrases are constantly renewed with the intention to exclude (mostly)...
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound
Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of a segregated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919. It is also a study of contemporary approaches to community building during a time period of racial segregation and polarization....
by Michael Rywkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This volume gives an overview of the regional, ethnic and political structure of the Soviet empire from its establishment through its ultimate disintegration. It provides a corrective to the Russocentrism and Great Power bias that has marked most studies of the Soviet Union.
Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia
Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British Raj, their presence complicates the traditional binary through which British imperialism is viewed – of ruler...
Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System
An Afrocentric Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism. This study shows that the failures and misdeeds of Mobutu's system were clear evidence that it lacked an African-centred vision and did not put the interests of the African...
An Ethics of Betrayal
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh...
Critical Issues in Contemporary China
Unity, Stability and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China.
Organized around three interrelated themes of unity, stability and development, each chapter explores distinct issues and debate their significance...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book tells the untold story of how ordinary Russian people experienced and coped with Russia’s transformations after the end of communism. Unlike most studies of the subject which focus on high politics, developments in the elite and events at the centre, this book, which includes findings...
Growing Up in the North Caucasus
Society, Family, Religion and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Investigating changes in upbringing in the North Caucasus, a region notorious for violent conflict, this book explores the lives of the generation born after the dissolution of the USSR who grew up under conditions of turmoil and rapid social change. It avoids the ‘traditional’ presentation of...
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and...