Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Driven Out
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten...
Cracking India
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the...
The Accidental Asian
Notes of a Native Speaker
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore.
In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his life as a second-generation...
Claiming the Oriental Gateway
Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S....
The Borders of Dominicanidad
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic...
by Young Jean Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
“Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides (Pullman, WA) and the Romantic poets (The Appeal). Now she piles her deconstructive scorn upon ethnic stereotypes in Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, a sweet-and-sour...
Russian Culture in Uzbekistan
One Language in the Middle of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary,...
by Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields.
Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Understand Thailand’s important symbols, icons, and social practices
Thailand’s culture is unlike any other. Travelers attempting to fully immerse themselves in all that this tourist destination has to offer find it essential to become culturally sensitive. Thailand Tourism provides readers...
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the...
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism...
The Latino Generation
Voices of the New America
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they...
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative...
To March for Others
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation of agricultural workers. SNCC...