Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Critical Ethnic Studies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does...
The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Economic Liberalization, Mobilizational Resources, and Ethnic Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
At the point of independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was projected to be a success story in the developing world. However, in July 1983 a violent ethnic conflict which pitted the Sinhalese against the Tamils began, and did not come to an end until 2009. This conflict led to nearly 50,000 combatant deaths...
by Ching-hwang Yen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon. It was partly the result of the rise of the Four Little Asian Dragons in the 1970s, and was speeded up by the tempo of globalization towards...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume...
Dead Subjects
Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in...
Learning to Be Tibetan
The Construction of Ethnic Identity at Minzu University of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification project to recognize ethnic minorities, which are widely considered as “peripheral,” “barbarian,” “inferior,” “backward,” and “distrusted.”...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Recent attacks on Ethnic Studies, revisionist actions in curriculum content, and anti-immigrant policies are creating a new culture war in America. This important work lays out the current debates—both in K–12 and higher education—to uncover the dangers and to offer solutions.
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Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Social capital and ethnicity are crucial to young people’s understandings of their social world. The strong bonding networks often assumed in ethnic groups suggest that individuals may prefer to be bonded to each other according to shared socio-cultural factors such as shared histories, memories,...
Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia
Ethnic Engineering in Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of...
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal
Democracy in the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics, this...
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism
Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity...
Ethnic Studies Research
Approaches and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Study of ethnic groups and race relations have always existed in the academy, primarily in the areas of sociology and anthropology. However, grassroots movements for ethnic studies programs and departments came about with very different agendas for the study of these groups. It is surprising, then,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to...