Minority Studies category: 588 books
Asian American Youth
Culture, Identity and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America.
Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957
Conversion in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and the Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The subtitle...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.
• More than 300 primary source documents that take readers...
Margins and Mainstreams
Asians in American History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.
While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social...
A Romani Women's Anthology
Spectrum of the Blue Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday experience and a social critique of the factors that enable and constrain...
African Diaspora and the Metropolis
Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North...
Japan's Commission on the Constitution
The Final Report
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report
by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The powerful Beyoncé, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a new incarnation of black feminism and black women’s agency, or are they only pure fantasy in which, instead of having agency, they are in fact the products of the forces of patriarchy...
The Life of Paper
Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselves—from bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being. Exploring the evolution of racism and confinement...
Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century
Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of present-day colorism in the lives of black women, investigating the lived experiences of a phenomenon that continues to affect women of African descent.
• Presents a contemporary sociological analysis of the issue of skin-tone prejudice...
by Randy Simons
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Increase our joy;
Push aside our anger.
Learn perfect love for one and each other;
Eliminate the sorrows that the desire to
Coexist may grow strong, oh so strongthat
Hate will have no place among we.
Even that we may find untold pleasures
In coexistence with one and the other! Your
Brother or sister.
Multiracialism and Its Discontents
A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism. Multiracialism is often heralded as a breakthrough in racial reconciliation; some even go so far as to posit that the U.S. will become so racially mixed that racism will diminish. However, this...
Fatal Accidents of Birth
Stories of Suffering, Oppression and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This volume collects seventeen stories of women and men who, simply because they were born poor, or a particular gender, or into a certain caste or religion, fell prey to the many atrocities and indignities endemic to contemporary India. Some resisted, survived, and soldier on. Some did not. Lachmi...
The Hip Hop Movement
From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement critically explores what each of these musics and movements’ contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop...