Minority Studies category: 588 books
Ties that Bind
Race And The Politics Of Friendship In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What does friendship have to do with racial difference, settler colonialism and post-apartheid South Africa? While histories of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa have often focused on the ideologies of segregation and white supremacy, Ties that Bind explores how the intimacies of friendship...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book examines the relationship between two policy approaches for managing the cultural diversity of contemporary societies: interculturalism and multiculturalism.
The relationship between these two approaches has been a matter of intense debate in recent years. Some commentators argue...
Latino Crossings
Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Tree That Bleeds
A Uighur Town on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In 1997 a small town in a remote part of China was shaken by violent protests that led to the imposition of martial law. Some said it was a peaceful demonstration that was brutally suppressed by the government; others that it was an act of terrorism. When Nick Holdstock arrived in 2001, the town was still bitterly divided.
Deutschland im Blaulicht
Notruf einer Polizistin
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Tania Kambouri hatte genug. Wieder einer dieser Einsätze, bei denen ihr kein Respekt entgegengebracht, sondern sie stattdessen wüst beschimpft und beleidigt wurde. Der türkischstämmige Mann, der die Polizei um Hilfe gerufen hatte, war empört: Was wollte diese "Bullenschlampe" von ihm?...
Familiar Strangers
A History of Muslims in Northwest China
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of...
by John K. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as Japan. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine describes the ritual cycle at Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki�s major Shinto shrine. Conversations with priests,...
Memory Eternal
Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker...
Colormute
Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research...
The Politics of Islamophobia
Race, Power and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Following 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror, Islamophobia has become a ubiquitous expression of political racism; its presence is felt in immigration restrictions, critiques of multiculturalism and the co-option of feminism that casts Muslim women as abject figures. *BR**BR*Throughout the book, what...
Between Water and Fire
Aspects in the History of the Parathavar Community (Collected Articles)
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Consciousness about self-identity and history is an offshoot of colonial rule. Governments in independent India that largely inherited the economic and political structure of the colonial rule fueled this consciousness by adopting the policy of caste-based reservation in matters of public utility...
Te Koparapara
An Introduction to the Maori World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Like the clear morning song of te koparapara, the bellbird, this book allows the Maori world to speak for itself through an accessible introduction to Maori culture, history, and society from an indigenous perspective. In 21 illustrated chapters, leading scholars introduce Maori culture (including...
by Robert Marett
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
This is one of the finest introductions to anthropology ever written . Marett is a clear and concise writer whose prose is majestic and understandable. Marett is clearly one who loves anthropology and needs to share it with the world.
Guest People
Hakka Identity in China and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.