Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life
Hindus and Muslims in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney examines three pairs of Indian cities-one city in each pair with a history...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the norms and practices of ethnic diversity management in the Russian Federation in the last twenty years. It examines the evolution of the legal framework, the institutional architecture and the policies intended to address the large number of challenges...
Ethnic Community Builders
Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century. The authors present interviews of 14 people of various stripes—teachers, politicians, radio personalities—who have been...
Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe: History, Data and Analysis
Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe: History, Data and Analysis
History, Data and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This unique reference traces the changing borders and ethnic balances that characterized the history of Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. After a preliminary overview, the book divides Eastern Europe into five regions, from the Baltic to the Balkans, and closely analyzes the ethnic structure...
by Colin Mackerras
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
China's fifty-five officially recognised ethnic minorities form about 8% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China's territory. They are very diverse, and the degree of modernisation among them varies greatly. This book examines the current state of China's...
Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World, 2nd Edition
Ethnic and National Groups around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book addresses the numerous national movements of ethnic groups around the world seeking independence, more self-rule, or autonomy—movements that have proliferated exponentially in the 21st century.
• Provides readers with an understanding of a global phenomenon that continues even...
Research and policy in ethnic relations
Compromised dynamics in a neoliberal era
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation. In this unique book, the contributors seek...
Ethnic Armies
Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1990
Ethnic Armies is a combination of essays focused on the subject of polyethnic armed forces from the time of the Habsburgs to the age of the superpowers and is a publication of the proceedings of the thirteenth Military History Symposium, held at the Royal Military College of Canada in March 1986.
Multi-ethnic...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
by Michael Banton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Ethnic and Racial Consciousness is a completely revised version of the highly acclaimed first edition published in 1988. At that time no one expected the former Yugoslavia would break up with the brutal slaughter of neighbour by neighbour. Few would have predicted the horrific massacres in Rwanda...
Education and Racism
A Cross National Inventory of Positive Effects of Education on Ethnic Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
First published in 1999, this book gives an inventory of factors contributing to ethnic prejudice in seven countries and the role of formal education among them on the basis of national surveys. It appears that education is crucial in all the countries surveyed and contributes to more tolerant views...
The Story of the Origins of the Bura/Pabir People of Northeast Nigeria
Language, Migrations, the Myth of Yamta-Ra-Wala, Social Organization and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of from the East; secondly to investigate why and how the...
Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Ideally suited for high school and undergraduate students studying subjects such as anthropology, geography, and social studies, Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia provides clear, detailed, and up-to-date information on each major group in South Asian and Pacific Island countries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This unique text examines a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. The contributors present a rich set of case studies of the key Latin American, Asian American, and Middle Eastern American ethnic communities that comprise the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case...