Minority Studies category: 588 books
Culture and Social Behavior
The Ontario Symposium, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied...
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical...
by Sarah Beth Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interviews, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing in Hindi and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive...
Researching International Migration
Lessons from the Kerala Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
International migration and workers’ remittances have, of late, become a significant economic and social phenomena affecting the fortunes of millions of families in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Yet, the measurements and methods of analysis of their impact on the individuals,...
by Amy Ansell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Situating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and...
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population....
by Youna Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data...
by Peter Wade
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon by many disciplines but this is the first book to deal solely with these issues.
Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but the importance of this has been...
by Gurharpal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In the last decade the study of multiculturalism has become an established field in political and social theory. This in-depth and engaging volume focuses on public policy and the dilemmas faced by the governments of increasingly diverse societies. Offering a theoretically and empirically rich collection...
Social Studies in the Storytelling Classroom
Exploring Our Cultural Voices and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
“Accessible, inspirational and practical plans that make storytelling a portal to multifaceted insights about culture, history, geography and identity.”
– Janice M. Del Negro, Ph.D., GSLIS Dominican University
Crime as Structured Action
Doing Masculinities, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
James W. Messerschmidt’s groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured...
Living Color
Race and Television in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory...
Negotiating Group Identities in Multicultural Germany
The Role of Mainstream Media, Discourse Relations, and Political Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book scrutinizes the media portrayals of (ethnic/religious) minorities in Germany, encompassing the fields of public affairs, media effects, political communication, multiculturalism, populism in the media and politicized uses of collective identities. It compares the political discourse (Bundestag...