Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Gender and Education in China
Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the...
by Xiaowei Zang
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership...
Mapping Media in China
Region, Province, Locality
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes,...
Introduction to Latin America
Twenty-First Century Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
`This excellent textbook provides students of Latin America with a rich and deep analysis of the processes and outcomes of globalization, past and present. Diversity and difference are explored using vivid and detailed country profiles. A strength of this textbook is its ability to explain complex...
The Rule of Law in Developing Countries
The Case of Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world and second in South Asia, is known for its natural disasters, floods and political violence. However, the country plans to become a middle-income country by 2020 due to rapid economic growth led by strong and vibrant garments and...
Homecomings
Unsettling Paths of Return
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back...
Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea
Chinese and Japanese Restaurants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The essays in Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea fill gaps in the existing food studies by revealing and contextualizing the hidden, local histories of Chinese and Japanese restaurants in the United States.
The writer of these essays show how the taste and presentation of Chinese and...
India and World War I
A Centennial Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the century, including the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism to the Great Crash of 1929 which lead to the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler and...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised...
International Family Studies
Developing Curricula and Teaching Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Make your marriage and family programs more relevant by making them cross-culturally sensitive
International Family Studies: Developing Curricula and Teaching Tools offers a collection of innovative ideas and resources for educators who wish to enhance the international content of their human development and family science curriculum. Co
Latinas/os on the East Coast
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political,...
Revitalizing Health for All
Case Studies of the Struggle for Comprehensive Primary Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The concept of Comprehensive Primary Health Care focuses on health system efforts to improve equity in health care access, community empowerment, participation of marginalized groups, and actions on the social determinants of health. Despite its existence since the late 1970s very few studies have...
Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers
(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes intersections of gender, class and sexuality by...