Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Maria Jaschok, Shui Jingjun Shui
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin...
Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese...
Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan
Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically successful nation regarded as prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nation with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, new forms of inequality are...
Melungeon Portraits
Exploring Kinship and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons—a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins—remains controversial. Who is Melungeon, how do we know...
by Craig Considine
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This installment in the critically acclaimed Contemporary Debates series uses evidence-based documentation to provide a full and impartial examination of beliefs and claims made about Muslim individuals, families, and communities in the United States.
• Provides evidence-based information...
Griffintown
Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. Once a destination for many from the Emerald Isle, Montreal saw Irish immigration dwindle in the late nineteenth century. Irish culture...
Normalizing the Balkans
Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality...
An Enduring Legacy
The Story Of Basques In Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In this volume, brothers Mark and John Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, resulting in an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheepherders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community of today.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
When The Vertical Mosaic first appeared in 1965, it became an instant classic. Its key message was that Canada was not the classless democracy it fancied itself to be. In fact, Canada was a highly inegalitarian society comprising a ‘vertical mosaic’ of distinct classes and ethnic groups. This...
The Intertwined Conflict
The Difference Between Culture and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
This book looks into the different aspects of Islam and culture, and how culture rather than Islam is affecting Muslims, today. It will examine the conflict between Islamic values, and social and culture ones. How Islam has always seen as a religion of oppression and terrorism through the Western...
All the Nations Under Heaven
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
First published in 1996, All the Nations Under Heaven has earned praise and a wide readership for its unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience...
Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. They have voter participation rates higher than most other Asian American ethnic groups, and they have won seats in local and state...
The Good Governor
Robert Ray and the Indochinese Refugees of Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes. The Tai Dam, an ethnic group from northern Vietnam, campaigned for sanctuary, writing letters to 30 U.S. governors in 1975. Only Robert D. Ray of Iowa agreed to...
A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore
The Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability 1872-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice and discrimination that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today,...