Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
The Uyghur Lobby
Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots. Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China’s fifth-largest minority nationality, and their...
Latino America
How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of...
by Dionicio Valdes
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
From the colorful supermercados of St. Paul's West Side to the rural communities of the Red River Valley, Mexican Americans have left an indelible mark on Minnesota's landscape. As one of the state's fastest-growing ethnic groups, Mexican Americans have been part of Minnesota's history since the early...
Mixed
Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally...
Mixing It Up
Multiracial Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum of questions...
Gay Latino Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based...
The Tejano Diaspora
Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
The Facet of Black Culture
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The Facet of Black Culture is a very unique book that talks about culture of the black people, the birth of a person to his final departure to our ancestors and how his property will be shared if he or she has any. This book begins with the brief history of some ethnic groups in Africa, particularly...
Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant
Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in “Amerika”
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Who will Cary Grant have been when the future runs out? In the atrocity-rich wake of Hiroshima, Cold War America is enriched beyond belief. Hollywood radiates, in turn, images of a consumer utopia criss-crossed by segregation, social mobility, racial passing, anxieties about ethnicity and “white panic”....
Growing Up in America
The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face. Growing Up in America provides a rich, first-hand account of the different social worlds that teens of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds...
Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups
International and Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Here is new information on the development of international and intercultural research on self-help groups. This book reflects the many developments which have occurred in the field over the past decade, emphasizing empirical research. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups provides specific research findings...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
Analysis, Representation, Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions.
Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts...
Latino Pentecostal Identity
Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Of the thirty-seven million Latinos living in the United States, nearly five million declare themselves to be either Pentecostal or Charismatic, and more convert every day. Latino Pentecostal Identity examines the historical and contemporary rise of Pentecostalism among Latinos, their conversion from...
by Syed Husin Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of...