Minority Studies category: 588 books
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply...
A Different Hunger
Writings on Black Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1991
Sivanandan’s influence extends well beyond the limits of formal acknowledgement. His ideas and writings have been consistently quoted, copied and plagiarised. He was both and intellectual and an activist, his work has made a profound impact on the political life of Britain from the 1970s to the...
Integration Nation
Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Eaton has done invaluable work in documenting the revitalization of communities across the U.S. by immigrants and refugees” (David Bacon, author of Illegal People).
In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make...
Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...
Becoming Mexican American
Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1995
Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing...
La Familia
Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1991
In detailed historical analyses of Mexican immigration, economic class struggle, intermarriage, urbanization and industrialization, regional differences, and discrimination and prejudice, La Familia demonstrates how such social and economic factors have contributed to the contemporary diversity of...
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet
Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history...
Catching History on the Wing
Race, Culture and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing...
by Colin Channer
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Channer's debut poetry collection is highly accessible, and it tackles issues of policing and justice from a highly unique perspective (Channer's father was a policeman). It is also timely since police violence against black men is a major news story in 2015.
Channer is Jamaica's best-selling...
There Goes the Neighborhood
Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meani ng for America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle...
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors...
Coyote Was Going There
Indian Literature of the Oregon Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.
Jackson Heights Chronicles
When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padrón is a social service fixer to many of the tens of thousands of Latino immigrants living in his neighborhood....
The Métis of Senegal
Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The Métis of Senegal is a history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialism. Hilary Jones describes how the métis carved out a niche as middleman traders for European merchants. As the colonial presence spread,...