Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Steve Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the...
Intersectionality and Politics
Recent Research on Gender, Race, and Political Representation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cutting-edge research on the intersection of race, gender, and politics
Traditionally, there has been a significant lack of empirical attention given to the ways in which race/ethnicity, gender, and political representation overlap. Intersectionality and Politics is the groundbreaking collection...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 6: Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the...
by Peter Manoleas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover a culturally competent model of clinical case management in mental health practice settings. In The Cross-Cultural Practice of Clinical Case Management, author Peter Manoleas synthesizes some of the existent thinking on case management in cross-cultural psychotherapy settings and develops...
The Northwest Caucasus
Past, present, future
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
This is the first book to present a comprehensive history of the Northwest Caucasus. Based on extensive research, it describes the peoples of the Northwest Caucasus, which have a significantly different ethnic makeup and history than the Northeast (Chechnya and Daghestan). The book examines their...
Contours of White Ethnicity
Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates...
Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years. The main inflows have been temporary workers from Southeast Asian countries and female spouses from Southeast Asia and China marrying Taiwanese husbands. The main outflow has been migration to China, as a result of increased economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism. It offers an original perspective on British multiculturalism and also presents an exploration of the politics of ethnic diversity in all the national contexts of the British Isles as well as the United Kingdom.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of...
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
Ethnic Conflict in Developing Societies
Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Fiji, and Suriname
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries. The study focuses on Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and Fiji. This project looks at the mechanisms, which vary from legislation to political structures, systems,...
Three Roads to Magdalena
Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred...