Minority Studies category: 588 books

Cover of Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014

Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation...
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by Onoto Watanna
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child of white parents who was raised from infancy in Japan by a Japanese foster mother and assumed to be Eurasian. A crisis occurs when, 18 years after her birth, her American father returns...
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Making Diaspora in a Global City

South Asian Youth Cultures in London

by Helen Kim
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban...
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Feminist Freedom Warriors

Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Born out of an engagement with anti-racist feminist struggles as women of color from the Global South, Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) is a project showcasing cross-generational histories of feminist activism addressing economic, anti-racist, social justice, and anti-capitalist issues across national...
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Teaching the World to Shell Peas

God's Covenant with Soul People

by R. L. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012

Surely, God did not allow African Americans to experience oppression for over four hundred years just for us to dwell in an exclusive neighborhood, acquire material possessions, attain middle class status, or be a famous black first. African Americans are not in America to imitate our white brothers...
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Black Star

Britain's Asian Youth Movements

by Anandi Ramamurthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and 80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers' struggles across the globe. *BR**BR*This...
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Los Angeles--Struggles toward Multiethnic Community

Asian American, African American, and Latino Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Cover of Wonder Girls
by Paola Gianturco, Musimbi Kanyoro
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Wonder Girls: Changing Our World is the first photographic book to document groups of activist girls (age 10 to 18) globally. It’s award winning and inspiring! Paola Gianturco and her eleven-year-old granddaughter documented the work of fifteen girl-led nonprofit groups in thirteen countries...
Cover of Answering Chief Seattle
by Albert Furtwangler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America,...
Cover of Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer

Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer

Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup�ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup�ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from...
Cover of Plains Indian Rock Art
by James D. Keyser, Michael A. Klassen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls,...
Cover of Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of recent years have generated security concerns about Muslim communities in the West. These have added an additional layer to the tensions surrounding Muslim...
Cover of Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist
by Vivian M. May
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Drawing on Africana and feminist theory, May places Cooper's theorizing in its historical...
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Identity/Difference Politics

How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters

by Rita Dhamoon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

In recent decades theories of liberal multiculturalism as articulated by political philosophers such as Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in western political theory. This book provides a nuanced critique of these debates by questioning...
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