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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume, the second in the Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action series, examines civil society in South Asia through case studies of different kinds of ethnic ('communal') activism. With chapters covering Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India (Darjeeling, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu), it avoids...
Economic Development in China's Northwest
Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic development,...
Men of Color
A Context for Service to Homosexually Active Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Men of Color provides those working in the social services with an assessment framework for identifying and understanding the developmental needs of gay and bisexual men of color. By adding an ethnic dimension to the literature on homosexual conduct and identity, this book helps service providers...
Struggle for Ethnic Identity
Narratives by Asian American Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1999
Dr. Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim present a compilation of narratives on ethnic identity written by first-, 1.5-, and second-generation Asian American professionals. In an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies long associated with being both Asian and American, these narratives trace the formation of...
by Kevin Hechinger, Curtis Hechinger
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Can you differentiate between the Amish and the Hasidic Jew?
Do you know the single, shocking difference between the Redneck and the Appalachian? Can you successfully identify -- and avoid -- the Charismatic, Verbose Nigerian Cabdriver or the Honda-Driving UCLA Korean Gangster Wannabe? If the...
by Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia (including...
Making Italian America
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions...
by Lizhong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
De-politicizing issues of ethnicity is a new theoretical approach to study ethnic questions actively propounded and elaborated by Professor Ma Rong of Sociology Department of Peking University in the past ten years. In the recent years, this theoretical approach has aroused biggish responses from...
The Paradox of Federalism
Does Self-Rule Accommodate or Exacerbate Ethnic Divisions?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions. A federal arrangement which formally recognizes ethno-linguistic diversity to help manage divisions can also pave the way for eventual disintegration. The case studies in this book cover a wide geographical...
Urban Ethnic Encounters
The Spatial Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Urban Ehtnic Encounters attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space. A multidisciplinary team of authors searches the various dimensions of the spatial organization of inter-ethnic relations...
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang...
The Singapore Ethnic Mosaic
Many Cultures, One People
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and cultures. This volume provides an updated account of the heterogeneity within each of the main communities — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and Others. It also documents the ethnic...
Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America
The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged...
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...