Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Putin's Olympics
The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true...
Friendship and Diversity
Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships...
Newafricanleaders Contributions of Africans in Birmingham from 1950
Traditional Stories of Africans in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
NewAfricanLeaders interprets the heritage and history of the African community in Birmingham, United Kingdom, exploring both individual and collective achievements and contributions to the recent history of the city. Ebot Ashu researches the stories of Africans in Birmingham and provides in this volume...
Romani Writing
Literacy, Literature and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The Roma (commonly known as "Gypsies") have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group. However, as Romani Writing shows, the Roma have a deep understanding of literacy and its implications, and use writing for a range of different purposes. While some...
Roma in Europe
The Politics of Collective Identity Formation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational collective identity through the practices and discourses of everyday life, as well as through those of identity politics. It illustrates how the collective...
The Romani Movement
Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe’s biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been particularly...
Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery
Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the Chinese government’s policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development....
The Bernal Story
Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
For eight years, the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights was
mired in controversy. Traditionally a working-class neighborhood known
for political activism and attention to community concern, Bernal house a
diverse population of Latino, Filipino, and European heritage. The branch
library,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal networks have contributed to Chinese entrepreneurial success. They demonstrate how effective these factors...
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions...
by Clem Seecharan
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Diverse conceptions of India, as homeland, were central to the shaping of Indo-Guyanese identity. An imagined India − part fact, part fantasy − has continually woven into the Indo-Guyanese consciousness a rich, elevating construction of self: an antidote to the deflating image of the ‘coolie’...
The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region’s migratory patterns. In the early centuries of migration, the Yemeni, or Hadrami, traveler was both a trader and a religious missionary,...
Medical Transnationalism
Korean Immigrants' Medical Tourism to South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Medical Transnationalism examines Korean immigrants’ distinctive healthcare behaviors, contributing factors to their medical tourism, and their experiences and evaluations of medical tourism. Analyzing survey data of 507 Korean immigrants and in-depth interviews with 120 Korean immigrants in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Published in 1998, this book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of one of the most vital issues in the contemporary world. Never was this topic more relevant than now, on the threshold of the twenty-first century. At a time when the global economy, European citizenship and worldwide religion are...