Minority Studies category: 588 books
Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain
The dynamics of diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
As debates around ethnic identity and inequality gain both political and media interest, this important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain. While providing a comprehensive...
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon
Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked...
Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Tim Wise is a force. His relentless touring and blogging have positioned him as one of the top commentators on the ever-changing racial landscape in the US today. A-list media seek him, his events are packed and his sales are strong. His success demonstrates that people of all colors in the US are...
Adolescents in Public Housing
Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Adolescents in Public Housing incorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine much-needed light on African American youth living in non–HOPE VI public-housing neighborhoods. With findings grounded in research, the book gives practitioners and policy makers a solid...
by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Fuat Keyman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people...
The Legal Universe
Observations of the Foundations of American Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
According to Deloria and Wilkins, "Whenever American minorities have raised voices of protest, they have been admonished to work within the legal system that seek its abolition." This essential work examines the historical evolution of the legal rights of various minority groups and the relationship between these rights and the philosophical intent of the American founders.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa. Credit-Click here
Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves...
Scandalous Bodies
Diasporic Literature in English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This collection features more than two dozen narratives by atheists from different backgrounds across the United States. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and religious upbringing, these individuals address deconversion, community building, parenting, and romantic relationships, providing...
From Praha to Prague
Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others headed to rural areas out west where they could claim their own land for farming. In From Praha to Prague, Philip...
The New Colored People
The Mixed-Race Movement in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross
In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation who refuse to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. Energized by a refusal to allow mixed-race people to be rendered invisible, this movement lobbies...
A Law for the Lion
A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
"Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutirrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutirrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutirrez family ranch near Laredo, Texas, led...
Greasers and Gringos
Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Although the origin of the term “greaser” is debated, its derogatory meaning never has been. From silent movies like The Greaser’s Revenge (1914) and The Girl and the Greaser (1913) with villainous title characters, to John Steinbeck's portrayals of Latinos as lazy, drunken, and shiftless in...
A Landscape of Travel
The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity...