Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
London the Promised Land Revisited
The Changing Face of the London Migrant Landscape in the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, the...
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
The Other Side of Assimilation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Navid Kermani – author, journalist and academic – is one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Germany today. Kermani has been at the forefront of recent debates about Islam and its role in Germany’s political, social and cultural life. Instead of emphasizing the differences between...
by Betty Mackune-Karrer, Kenneth Hardy, George Saba
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Minorities and Family Therapy highlights the work of experienced, sensitive clinicians who, along with minority families, have found creative solutions to the problems minority families present.
Until now, the field of family therapy has paid little attention to the specific clinical needs...
This Land Is My Land
We Left but a Mystery Grave
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This Land is My Land is a historical fictional story about the life and adventures of the soldiers, artisans, and clergy under the leadership of Hidalgo Don Hernando De Soto beginning in the year of 1538 and coming to a tiring end in 1542. The theme illustrates the difficulty of men and women in the...
Straight A's
Asian American College Students in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A’s Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to their...
Dis-Orienting Planets
Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
With contributions by:
Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy...
by Marc Simon Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual education.
Rethinking the Chicano Movement...
Happily Hippie
Meet a Modern Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity rethinks hippies. Hippiedom didnt die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedoms ethnogenesis. Well learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped...
Multicultural Psychology
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Multicultural Psychology introduces students to the myriad ways in which multicultural issues affect our understanding of, and research in, a wide range of domains including biological, developmental, social, and clinical psychological science. It provides in-depth coverage of the largest groups of...
Clinical Issues with Interracial Couples
Theories and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Go beyond cookie-cutter therapy and interventions to provide culturally relevant therapy that works for your clients in interracial relationships!
With this book, you'll explore an array of relational issues faced by various configurations of interracial couples. Then you'll learn specific...
Fathers Across Cultures: The Importance, Roles, and Diverse Practices of Dads
The Importance, Roles, and Diverse Practices of Dads
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Interest in the role of the father and his influence on children's development and economic well-being has grown considerably. This edited volume uses detailed accounts to provide culturally situated analysis of fathering in cultures around the world. The book's contributors, a multidisciplinary group...
by Perdana Leadership Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
National Unity. What does it mean? How does a nation achieve it? This was the topic of discussion at the debut Perdana Discourse Series that took place in Malaysia on 23rd August 2004.
In this monograph, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, speaks on the policies that the...
Between Mao and McCarthy
Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York.
Between Mao and McCarthy looks...