Minority Studies category: 588 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
La transculturalité constitue une nouvelle façon de concevoir les cultures, c’est-àdire non plus comme des îlots distincts, mais plutôt comme des réseaux interactifs de sens et de pratiques. Ces identités transculturelles qui n’entrent pas aisément dans le seul moule d’une nation ou...
Rethinking Racial Capitalism
Questions of Reproduction and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources?
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the...
Face of the New Peoples Army of the Philippines, Volume One Cordillera
Volume One Cordillera
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In Face of the New Peoples Army Frans Welman looks at the people behind the struggle for their rights. Often depicted as rebels, killers, criminals and the like they actually live in a semi feudal, a post colonial society where they are oppressed and exploited. The Government of the Philippines condones...
by Christie Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Raven�s Cry is a Northwest Coast classic -- a moving and powerful work that is a fictionalized retelling of the near destruction of the Haida nation.
The Haida are a proud and cultured people, whose home is Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of northern British Columbia....
Eastern Values; Western Milieu
Identities and Aspirations of Adolescent British Muslim Girls
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In this book, Tehmina Basit examines the educational, social and career aspirations of adolescent Muslim girls in the context of their present experiences in contemporary Britain. She gathered data for the study over a period of twenty months, mainly by in-depth interviewing. The book portrays adolescence...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Following the success of its best-selling predecessors, the Fourth Edition of Harriette Pipes McAdoo's Black Families retains several now classic contributions while including updated versions of earlier chapters and many entirely new chapters. The goal through each revision of this core text has...
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...
Diversity in the Power Elite
Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Diversity in the Power Elite is a provocative analysis of the diversity that exists—and doesn’t exist—among America’s powerful people. Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff examine the progress that has been made, and where progress has stalled, for women, African Americans, Latino/as,...
Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010–2015
Swimming with Sharks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This book uses a micro-narrative structure to explore the assault on the collective memory of Mexican Americans in the Southwest United States from 2010–2016. These communities’ survival depends on their histories and identities, which are being quickly erased by gentrification and dispersal,...
Imprisoned Apart
The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
�Please don�t cry,� wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana, and she was incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their separation would continue for more...
Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979
Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century. In just over three decades, South Korea transformed itself from an underdeveloped, agrarian country into an affluent, industrialized one. At the same time, democracy replaced a long series of military authoritarian...
Navigating Ethnicity
Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This important book provides a novel perspective on ethnicity, nationality, and race by considering how they are shaped by their geography. Exploring the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective, David H. Kaplan traces the spatial arrangements that convey such potent...
by Eugena K Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Letters to the Black Community focuses on generational experiences of racial oppression within the Black Community and its development of the illness, internalized oppression. Internalized oppression is a byproduct of the systemic structures of racism that negatively impact the Black psyche, communal...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life...