Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2007
This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people,...
Opposite Poles
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1,33, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: Over the last decades, the rise of Social Capital as a central field of research in Social Science has contributed to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
As the regional lingua franca, the Uyghur language long underpinned Uyghur national identity in Xinjiang. However, since the ‘bilingual education’ policy was introduced in 2002, Chinese has been rapidly institutionalised as the sole medium of instruction in the region’s institutes of education....
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Emergent Identities of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Alma Garc'a offers a bold new interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of self-discovery, a process filled with tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. Garc'a captures the...
Shopping for Identity
The Marketing of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations,...
by Kalpana Jha
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and linguistic diversity of the country. It...
Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream
Shaping America's Immigration Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research...
Barrios to Burbs
The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the...
Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch
Indian American Christianity in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Winner, 2018 Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Traces the religious adaptation of members of an important Indian Christian church– the Mar Thoma denomination – as they make their way in the United States.
This book exposes...
White Ethnic New York
Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive...
The Second Generation
Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability.
These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
An indispensable reference that will help students understand the major ethnic conflicts that dominate the headlines and shape the modern world.
• Presents comprehensive coverage of ethnic conflicts that enables readers to comprehend recent events around the world
• Contains updates...