Minority Studies category: 588 books
Communist Multiculturalism
Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the...
Enlightenment in the Colony
The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India.
Aamir Mufti identifies...
From Immigrants to Ethnic Minority
Making Black Community in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
While there is an extensive sociological literature concerning race relations, racial discrimination and the process of migration, this has tended to focus on snapshots at a given moment in time. There are few historical accounts of the development of black communities in Britain. This book will be...
Muslim Minority-State Relations
Violence, Integration, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This volume explores the dominant types of relationships between Muslim minorities and states in different parts of the world, the challenges each side faces, and the cases and reasons for exemplary integration, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression. By bringing together diverse case studies...
Religion and welfare in Europe
Gendered and minority perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe. Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectives...
Yezidis in Syria
Identity Building among a Double Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria’s minority context. This little known group is connected to the community’s main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of...
Lives of Muslims in India
Politics, Exclusion and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably ‘minoritised’ Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing...
Capricious Borders
Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly...
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
Semi Queer
Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay...
White privilege
The myth of a post-racial society
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization. Compared with many other nations, the transition from authoritarian rule occurred in a rather orderly fashion. Group consciousness emerged as a reaction to the decades-long suppression of cultural diversity under martial law as different...
The Roma: a Minority in Europe
Historical, Political and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The main issues arising from the encounter between Roma people and surrounding European society since the time of their arrival in Medieval Europe until today are discussed in this work. The history of their persecution and genocide during the Nazi era, in particular, is central to the present volume....
Emergent U.S. Literatures
From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968,...