Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Build Your Neighbour
Dismantle the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Now that most Canadian cities have “gone global,” do you feel overwhelmed by how unaware we are of the culture and backgrounds of our new neighbours? Do you wish you knew enough at least to start a conversation with them? This little book helps get us launched. It starts off in play mode,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination,...
Sueños Americanos
Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Education is a primary route to rewarding employment and economic security. It is particularly significant for the future prospects of children who are ethnic minorities, were born into disadvantaged economic circumstances, or are dealing with language barriers.
For nearly a decade Julio Cammarota...
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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...
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this international best-seller provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross‐cultural psychology. The book’s unique critical thinking framework, including Critical Thinking boxes,...
by Geoff Hamilton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979,...
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local...
Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years.
Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan�s...
Minorities and Media
Producers, Industries, Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia. The book places the voices of minorities at its centre, moving beyond a study of only representation and engaging with minority media producers, industries and audiences. Drawing on a diverse...
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Revisiting the boat people
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee era...
Minorities and the Modern Arab World
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the...
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation...
China's Assimilationist Language Policy
The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present...
by Steve Garner
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book traces the creation of the ethnic groups in the nineteenth century and its ultimate impact on the colony's political constituencies in the run-up to independence. The construction of the nation in the postcolonial period is approached through an analysis of cricket, trade unions and women...