Ethnic Studies list 5

Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity

Japanese, Ukrainians, and Scots, 1919-1971

by Aya Fujiwara
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and “mainstream” societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of...

Ethnicity in Asia

by Colin Mackerras
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at such core issues as: · the ethnic minorities or groups in the country of concern, how many ethnic groups, population, language...

The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia

by David Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation...

Ethnic Politics in Burma

States of Conflict

by Ashley South
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country. The book includes a brief...

Beyond Colorblind

Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey

by Sarah Shin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

• 15th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Also Recommended in Racial Reconciliation • 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity...

Playing the Races

Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

by Henry B. Wonham
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004

Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick...

Ethnic Worlds in Select Indian Fiction

by Juri Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

The book is the first of its kind in using the methodology of Comparative Literature to look at ethnographic fiction written in different regional languages of India. The issue of cultural identity of writers has often been seen as a simple case of a one-to-one relationship between the writer...

The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence

Democracy on Fire

by Stephen M. Magu
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of National...

Japanese American Ethnicity

In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations

by Takeyuki Tsuda
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a...

Autobiography in Black and Brown

Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez

by Michael Nieto Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography: Black Boy and Brown. Wright was a radical left winger, while Rodriguez is widely viewed as a reactionary. Despite...

Virtual Ethnicity

Race, Resistance and the World Wide Web

by Linda Leung
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Where is the ethnic minority presence in cyberspace? In this book, Linda Leung makes a pioneering exploration of ethnic minority presence in cyberspace. She finds that despite the apparent white, Western, male, middle class profile of cyberspace, there is significant ethnic minority activity. The...

Viewing an American Ethnic Community

Rochester, New York, Italians in Photographs

by Frank A. Salamone
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009

Viewing an American Ethnic Community is a work based on the author's love of his heritage. Salamone, a professor of anthropology, believes that each ethnic community must adapt to the social and cultural circumstances in which it finds itself. Thus, while sharing much with other Italian-American communities,...

Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations

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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018

The study of racial and ethnic relations has become one of the most written about aspects in sociology and sociological research. In both North America and Europe, many "traditional" cultures are feeling threatened by immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia. This handbook is a true...

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This encyclopedia details the participation of individual ethnic and racial minority groups throughout U.S. military history. • More than 300 entries on ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S. military • Perspectives from more than 50 different contributors • Cross-references...

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