Minority Studies category: 588 books
Copts at the Crossroads
The Challenges of Building Inclusive Democracy in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront. This book poses such questions as why there has been a mass exodus of Copts from Egypt, and how this relates...
by Stevan Harrell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples...
Race and Family
A Structural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way— through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to...
Subalternity and Representation
Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it....
Race Lessons
Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society—past, present, and future. In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about...
by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ranajit Guha
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link politics, culture, and literature. Emerging from a decade of work and debates generated by a collective known...
Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
The South has long played a central role in America’s national imagination—the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation’s moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture....
The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies
Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
*The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies:*Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on the intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities. As animal consumption...
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century
Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after...
The White Racial Frame
Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of...
Muslim Women in Britain
De-Mystifying the Muslimah
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story.
An exploration of...
Muslim Women Online
Faith and Identity in Virtual Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
While issues surrounding Muslim women are common in the international media, the voices of Muslim women themselves are largely absent from media coverage and despite the rapidly increasing presence of Muslim women in online groups and discussions, it is still a relatively unexplored topic.This book...
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy
Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power...
by Dr. Angela J. Hattery, Dr. Earl Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
"Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers and interventionists concerned with Black families in the context of our nation."
—Michael C. Lambert, University of Missouri*, Colombia*
"African...