Minority Studies category: 588 books
by Anna Julia Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A cornerstone of black feminist and political theory, this collection of essays focuses on racial progress and women's rights. A Voice from the South, written in 1892, is regarded as the first statement of black feminism. Despite their imprint of nineteenth-century social thought, these essays possess...
China Watcher
Confessions of a Peking Tom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People�s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author�s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s...
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping...
Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years.
Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan�s...
The Economic Contract Law of China
Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian...
Vagabond Life
The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
George Kennan (1845-1924) was a pioneering explorer, writer, and lecturer on Russia in the nineteenth century, the author of classic works such as Tent Life in Siberia and Siberia and the Exile System, and great-uncle of George Frost Kennan, the noted historian and diplomat of the Cold War.
In...
Chink
Thinking Beyond the Stereotype
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Henry Kong takes on the clash of cultures in a nuanced study of what it means to be Asian American. Underlying the prejudices and misunderstandings that Asian-Americans face are deeper issues of alienation and belonging. For many, being Asian in the West is to be caught in between, rather than being...
As the Leaves Turn Gold
Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated...
Working Women, Working Men
Sao Paulo & the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain...
First Peoples
Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2005
It is widely assumed that indigenous cultures are under threat: they are rooted in landscapes that have undergone radical transformations, and the opposing forces of business corporations and ruling political powers only seem to grow stronger. Yet Jeff Sissons argues here in First Peoples that, far...
Muslim Diaspora in the West
Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In view of the growing influence of religion in public life on the national and international scenes, Muslim Diaspora in the West constitutes a timely contribution to scholarly debates and a response to concerns raised in the West about Islam and Muslims within diaspora. It begins with the premise...
by Frans Welman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Two essays on two visits to the Burmese Military dominated dazzling Naga Harvest Festival. Nagaland in Burma/Myanmar, the other two thirds are in India is off limits to everyone except for one time a year during the traditional Naga Harvest Festival. Through this festival though colorful, charming...
Muslims in Britain
Making Social and Political Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social, political...