Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Red Matters
Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body...
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture
Asia in Flight
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.
Using examples...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate—and suggests practical remedies for change.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the realities of...
Shades of Difference
Why Skin Color Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this...
The Middle Class in Neoliberal China
Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...
Indian Immigrant Women and Work
The American experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of desperation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of racial, ethnic, cultural, political and geographical factors. These complexities...
Mine Okubo
Following Her Own Road
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
�To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.� - Min� Okubo
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U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India...
The Labour Movement in the Global South
Trade Unions in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian...
ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND MULTI
New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid...
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia
Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Dealing with the complex and discomforting ‘grey ‘area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many ‘normative’...