Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Re-producing Chineseness in Southeast Asia
Scholarship and Identity in Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Identity politics can impede Chinese identification in southeast Asia because the migrant population, particularly the intellectual aspect of that population, have to consider the political effects of their intellectual and social activities on the survival of Chinese communities. Similarly, these...
by Donna Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in...
Lotus among the Magnolias
The Mississippi Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Unlike most Chinese-American studies which focus on large urban concentrations sustained by continuous immigration, this study centers on a small Chinese enclave located in a rural Southern biracial society. It focuses upon three generations of Chinese undergoing social change in an area within the state...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by...
Race, Ethnicity and Football
Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established commentators and up-and-coming voices. Combining theoretical and empirical contributions, the volume addresses a wide variety of...
Human Exhibitions
Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions...
Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football
Historical and Contemporary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through...
Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls
Being 'Half' in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities...
by Celia Roberts, Evelyn Davies, Tom Jupp
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how...
Little Manila Is in the Heart
The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community...
Crimes and Mercies
The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 19441950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II-one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including...
by David G. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
We know theirs to have been the hands that helped build the nation’s canals and railroads, the transport for so many immigrant groups making their way to the newly formed state of Wisconsin in the mid–nineteenth century. Yet the stories of Irish people in Wisconsin and their role in our state’s...
Latinx Literature Unbound
Undoing Ethnic Expectation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Brings attention to several contemporary writers that have received little or no critical attention, including Eduardo Halfón, Manuel Muñoz, Patricia Engel, and Amanda Calderón.