Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Brides on Sale
Taiwanese Cross-Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them «Taiwan’s Fifth Ethnic Group». This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked...
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain...
Race, Immigration, and Social Control
Immigrants’ Views on the Police
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book discusses the issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and immigrant status in U.S. policing, with a special focus on immigrant groups’ perceptions of the police and factors that shape their attitudes toward the police. It focuses on the perceptions of three rapidly growing yet understudied...
by Yinshi Juan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which introduces the staple food, non-staple food, local flavours, eating customs of traditional festivals and cooking methods in detail in China. It investigates the developing and evolution process, aesthetic intention and regional or ethnic characteristics of Chinese diet, and reveals systematically the profound Chinese food culture.
Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
With overview essays and more than 400 A-Z entries, this exhaustive encyclopedia documents the history of Asians in America from earliest contact to the present day. Organized topically by group, with an in-depth overview essay on each group, the encyclopedia examines the myriad ethnic groups and...
As Borders Bend
Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2005
As do other mighty forces such as wars, nationalist aspirations, and the shifting courses of great rivers, globalization changes the world's borders by bending them out of shape and creating new transnational spaces. State political boundaries no longer draw the definitive line in people's lives they...
The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
Democracy at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led...
Human Capital or Cultural Capital?
Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion...
Chinese Society
Change, Conflict and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science...
by Richard Crasta
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
In this comical, passionate, satirical, and sincere book, The White God delivers "The Fourteen Commandments of Impressing the Whites" to a brown "Moses."
Inscribed on two coconuts, the Commandments sum up both the secrets of success for brown/colored writers, entrepreneurs,...
Skin Color and Identity Formation
Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This interdisciplinary anthology contains a collection of materials, including personal accounts, analyses of historical and/or current events, and legal rulings told through the lens of various racial or ethnic groups living in the United States. Included are discussions of housing and neighborhoods, recreation and work, crime, education, and politics.
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare
Reflections on Cultural Competency
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One...
Gypsy Stigma and Exclusion in Turkey, 1970
The Social Dynamics of Exclusionary Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Using an oral history approach, this book draws on Gypsy and non-Gypsy narratives to tell the story of Gypsy forced dislocation from Bayramic, a northwestern town of Turkey, in 1970. Gül Özatesler examines memory construction, the categories of Gypsyness and Turkishness, and the different perspectives...