Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Hispanic Migration and Urban Development
Studies from Washington DC
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This volume of "Research in Race and Ethnic Relations" analyzes the pattern of assimilation and incorporation among the Hispanic population in the Washington DC metro region. Following a comprehensive introduction looking at theoretical and policy implication, the book consists of two conceptual...
The Politics of Aid to Burma
A Humanitarian Struggle on the Thai-Burmese Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more...
The Politics of Integration
Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore,...
Borrowed Voices
Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...
by Peter Kivisto, Paul R. Croll
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Race and ethnicity have shaped the social, cultural and political character of much of the world, and remain an important influence on contemporary life in the 21st Century. Race and Ethnicity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to these potent forces. Topics covered include:
The forms...
Rethinking Social Exclusion in India
Castes, Communities and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In recent years exclusionary policies of the Indian state have raised questions concerning social harmony and economic progress. During the last few decades the emergence of identity politics has given new lease of life to exclusionary practices in the country. Castes, communities and ethnic groups...
Sri Lanka
History and the Roots of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections...
Transborder Lives
Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Lynn Stephen’s innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca—the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle—who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and...
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...
When Half Is Whole
Multiethnic Asian American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making...
The Store in the Hood
A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The Store in the Hood is a comprehensive study of conflicts between immigrant merchants and customers throughout the U.S. during the 20th century. From the lynchings of Sicilian immigrant merchants in the late 1800s, to the riots in L.A. following the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney...
by C. Paige Gutierrez
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1992
Cajun food has become a popular "ethnic" food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique.Neither...
When Greeks think about Turks
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors...
Social Work Research with Minority and Oppressed Populations
Methodological Issues and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Learn the latest and most effective strategies and ideas so you can accurately research oppressed and minority populations!
Social Work with Minority and Oppressed Populations: Methodological Issues and Innovations provides social workers, social work researchers, and graduate students with...