Minority Studies category: 588 books
The Postcolonial Eye
White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural...
West Papua Free!
Vol 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
West Papua, part of Indonesia shows disparity with the land that annexed it after the Dutch abandoned a war which should have secured independence for the Papuans as the Netherlands had promised. Frans Welman in collaboration with Viktor Kasiepo travels through this forgotten land of high rise mountains...
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from...
Borneo Trilogy Sarawak: Volume 2
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia is the second in the trilogy on Borneo and is a travelogue on rainforest and its Indigenous Peoples. Sarawak opens its heart of darkness, the rainforest when Frans Welman visits the interior and meets the peoples of the rainforests, Indigenous Peoples and peoples who exploit this rich and diverse ecosystem and habitat, Kayan, Kelabit and Bidayuh Peoples.
Borneo Trilogy Sarawak: Volume 1
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Sarawak, Malaysia is the second in the trilogy on Borneo and is a travelogue on rainforest and its Indigenous Peoples. Sarawak opens its heart of darkness, the rainforest when Frans Welman visits the interior and meets the peoples of the rainforests, Indigenous Peoples and peoples who exploit this rich and diverse ecosystem and habitat.
When A Black Woman Prays
How Church and Faith Change BLACK WOMEN
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
This book is a REVISED dedication to black women that never wavered in their faith or personal relationship with God. In this revised edition, you have black women sharing their personal experiences of pain, depression, hurt, and how God replaced their complexities with happiness and positive change....
Growing Up Brown
Memoirs of a Filipino American
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a �campo� boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway...
Everyday Forms of Whiteness
Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial" world after the...
Black Stats
African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Black Stats-a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,...
by Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, AmherstBill Fletcher Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved...
Awakening Together
The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
“Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, courageous, important work that will benefit all who read it. For anyone who longs to collaborate and create a just and inclusive community, Larry provides a brilliant guidebook.”
—Jack Kornfield,...
by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods...
Globalization and the Health of Indigenous Peoples
From Colonization to Self-Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In 70 countries worldwide, there is an estimated 370 million indigenous peoples, and their rich diversity of cultures, religions, traditions, languages and histories has been significant source of our scholarships. However, the health status of this population group is far below than that of non-indigenous...
Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt
On the Peripheries of Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Little is known about Egypt's Gypsies, called Dom by scholars, but variously referred to by Egyptians as Ghagar, Nawar, Halebi or Hanagra, depending on their location. Moreover, most Egyptians are oblivious to the fact that there are today large numbers of Gypsies dispersed from the outskirts of villages...