Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Adoption in Japan
Comparing Policies for Children in Need
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts...
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading...
Constitution-making in Asia
Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool throughout the ages and across the whole world to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
The Asian financial crisis has distracted attention from the realities of a growing affluent class in Asia. this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia series the authors examine the cultural reconfiguration, consumer behaviour, economic success and cultural status of the new rich.
Case studies from...
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services
Challenges for Practice and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Innovations in Delivering Culturally Sensitive Social Work Services: Challenges for Practice and Education is for human service professionals and educators who are seeking innovative ways to make their practice and service delivery more culturally appropriate and their education and training more...
by Nanette Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan. As in other countries, there has been much debate about the public use of language deemed demeaning to certain groups within society especially in relation to the issue of minority rights versus...
A World of Indigenous Languages
Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical...
African American Behavior in the Social Environment
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An essential text to help to understand human behavior and the processes that guide human adaptation
Social workers and therapists need to assess the full range of aspects of their client problems such as socioeconomic status, academic achievement, parental incarceration, psychopathology, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Across East Asia, intra-regional migration is more prevalent than inter-regional movements, and the region’s diverse histories, geopolitics, economic development, ethnic communities, and natural environments make it an excellent case study for examining the relationship between irregular migration...
Muslim Diversity
Local Islam in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists and historians convey is a feeling...
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia
Malaysianet
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological advancement...
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual...
by Franklin J. Franco
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican...