Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Recent years have witnessed the remarkable development of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in Asia, from the global popularity of the Japanese games and anime industries, to Korea’s film and pop music successes. While CCIs in these Asian cultural powerhouses aspire to become key players...
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns...
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations...
by Michael Luongo
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture
Gay Travels in the Muslim World journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread-Muslim countries. This thought-provoking book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during...
Tacit Subjects
Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify...
Dirty Laundry
Coloreds and Whites
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To many, the situation for black Americans in the world today seems hopeless. In Dirty Laundry, author Lavelle presents his personal view of race relations in the world and how these relations have affected both the black and white culture.
Through a series of essays, Lavelle describes the...
Expressions of Cambodia
The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
Why I Am so Proud to Be a Black Man
The Many Reasons to Uplift and Celebrate Our Uniqueness in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the beginning, when God created the black man, He gave all his wisdom to his first creations without boundaries and fears. Unfortunately, for far too long, black men have been portrayed negatively in our society and by the daily rhetoric that surrounds us. In their comprehensive study compiled...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Left of the Color Line
Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American,...
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
A History in Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai...
The Vernaculars of Communism
Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did...
Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal
'An Indian Soul in a European Body?'
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Working with Bengali mentors, especially his close friend A. B. Ghose, Sir John Woodroffe became the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies at the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known for The Serpent Power, the book which introduced 'Kundalini Yoga' to the...