Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks...
by Mario A. Tovar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Providing in-depth coverage of the Mexican American population from social, cultural, and psychological (clinical) perspectives, this book promotes the understanding of cultural practices and sociological characteristics of this important ethnic group.
• Addresses the characteristics of members...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada. The Reader is the perfect textbook for undergraduate courses in Race and Ethnic Studies,...
Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition
A Place called Shangrila
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic effects...
by Kwok Bun Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence...
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka
Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The reconstruction...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Boundaries - demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups - constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation.
It is especially with regard to disciplinary pluralism and historical breadth that this book most clearly departs and distinguishes...
Mexico's Cinema
A Century of Film and Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers is...
Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia
Provincial Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of states is a critical area of study.
Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states grapple with questions of territorial...
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume...
Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who...
Race and Nation
Ethnic Systems in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Race and Nation is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This second volume is a companion piece to GRAAT 9 "Ethnic Voices," edited by Claude Julien. It reflects more closely than the first the international participation in our 1991 conference sponsored by the GRAAT of Tours, the CERCA of Orléans and the CETANLA of the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Thanks...
From Many Cultures, One Nation
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Belizean Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Children possess national and ethnic identity, whether or not we want them to, and often that identity includes elements of their own devising.
Since independence, the Belizean government has sought to promote a national Belizean identity by recognizing the cultures of its multiple ethnic groups,...