Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Teaching Community
A Pedagogy of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical...
Asian American Sexual Politics
The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the social and political dominance for whites, particularly...
China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving
Raising Little Suns in Xiamen
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This book explores the effects of China’s one child policy on modern Chinese families. It is widely thought that such a policy has contributed to the creation of a generation of little emperors or little suns spoiled by their parents and by the grandparents who have been recruited to care for the...
The Eternal Storyteller
Oral Literature in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature...
When A Black Man Prays...God is Always Listening
How A Black Man Is Strengthen By His Faith In God
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Being a black man is never easy, and god understands this as he continues to walk with them through their struggles. That is why he always looked over his children with love for the obedient and punishment for the misguided. Today, we have many black men frustrated with the conditions of their people,...
The Emotional Politics of Racism
How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens...
by Chenda Keo
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Reporting the findings of a comprehensive study of human trafficking in Cambodia, this book focuses on the characteristics and operations of the traffickers. It provides a theoretical framework that explains the emergence of the phenomenon, and the role of moral panic and western hegemony in the war...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan.
Taking a multidisciplinary...
by Arne Røkkum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan and the outside world. This book presents an ethnographic portrayal of the people of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. In particular it explores...
Tourism and Local Development in China
Case Studies of Guilin, Suzhou and Beidaihe
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The boom in tourism to and within China is quite a recent phenomenon. China is now among the leading international tourist destinations, and demand for domestic tourism is rapidly increasing. This study examines the role of tourism in the local economic development in different areas of China, and...
Studies in the Middle Way
Being Thoughts on Buddhism Applied
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was called by Gautama the Buddha the Middle Way, the path between the introverted life of contemplation and the extrovert life of action in the world of men.
The Invented Indian
Cultural Fictions and Government Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This is an explosive collection of essays, written by leading scholars of North American Indians, most of them heavily involved in service and applied work, often on behalf of Indian clients, communities, and organizations. In an area saturated with deadening, consciously politicized orthodoxy, these...
Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste
A Cross-sectoral Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Despite Timor-Leste’s high expectations when it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, the country is ranked among the least developed countries in the world. It has found itself at the centre of international attention in the last decade, with one of the biggest interventions in UN history,...
Mixed Race 3.0
Risk and Reward in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"?Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"?Have you been disturbed to hear that you’re the "face of a colorblind future"?If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for...