Biracial & Multiracial Studies

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and...

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by...

This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public...

Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and...

As Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back at more than one hundred years of the Arab-American...

In this enlightening book, a campus "diversity doctor" relatesstories that individuals have shared with him about their anxieties in situations involving people who are in some way different than themselves. Dr. Rupert W. Nacoste regularly counsels...

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645383680Author John B HaydonFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Ten16 PressPublisher Ten16 PressWeight(grams) 581g

For many students en masse, their exposure to the ""African American Experience"" is limited to the pedestrian, brief and routine mentions of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King primarily during the month of February.Introduction to...

What makes a people so persistently guard its ethnic name, even at the expense of reconstructing its cultural entities? The Nu in northern Myanmar originated from the Anung and Nusu branches of the Chinese Nu people in the Nujiang River valley. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645383390Author John B HaydonFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Ten16 PressPublisher Ten16 PressWeight(grams) 426g

This book focuses on the Han Chinese (mainly former Kuomintang troops and their family members as well as descendants) and cross-border ethic tribes (mainly Lahu people) of Yunnan origin now living in Meilianghe Village (Ban Huay Nam Khun) in northern...

Multiculturalism, Social Justice, and the Community: Contemporary Readings provides students with an introduction to the flawed nature of definitions of race and ethnicity, and how these definitions contribute to disparate treatment, especially in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989630202Author Punita KhannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Humsub GlobalPublisher Humsub GlobalWeight(grams) 245g

Profiled Lifehelps to explain the adverse outcomes that People of Color experience, especially Black and Brown people, across all major social indicators including mortality, morbidity, college preparedness, income and wealth potential, prison rates,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897187326Author Emily HearnFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Second Story PressPublisher Second Story PressWeight(grams) 256g

People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong's population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups-Indians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913285050Author Dr Peprah-Gyamfi RobertFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Perseverance BooksPublisher Perseverance BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970027194Author Elijah Dickens MushemezaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 236g

Asian Americans and Asians in America explores the sociohistorical trajectories and overlapping lived experiences of Asians in the United States and Americans of Asian heritage. The book serves as an introduction to Asian American studies, meticulously...

White supremacy and American-style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by...

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Inter-ethnic political integration is a major theoretical and practical problem which is increasingly prominent in the political reality of multi-ethnic countries. This book is the final result of a special study on inter-ethnic political integration,...

This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a sense of national identity among the frontier peoples of Myanmar and their nationalist movement; main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915898012Author Nicolas Salazar SutilFormat PaperbackImprint Minority Rights Group InternationalPublisher Minority Rights Group International

Vietnamese make up one of the largest refugee populations in the United States, some arriving by boat in 1975 after the fall of Saigon and others coming in the 1990s. This collection of 22 essays by 14 authors illuminates Vietnamese-American culture,...

Some 30 years ago, South Korea began a temporary worker program modeled after Japan, Europe and the U.S. Newly arrived migrants, framed as temporary populations, were expected to return to their countries of origin upon fulfilling their economic roles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Literary Award (Art of the Memoir) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780449004289Author Kyoko MoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FawcettPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584677Author Delores MullingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 440g

Acknowledging efforts to dismantle racism at multiple levels, Racism and Anti-Racism Today examines racism and anti-racism as interconnected rather than isolated issues and proposes a framework for effective anti-racist policy and practice. Providing a...

During the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760992224Author Reneé Pettitt-SchippFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 421g

A pioneering exploration of the unexamined roots and effect of racial sympathy within American politics. There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. This is a book about white people who feel that...

Facing Two Ways explores the interaction between European and African cultures within the setting of Ghana's main coastal communities. Roger S. Gocking focuses on the emergence of a distinctive ethno-cultural constellation that arose from the interaction...

How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up...

This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic call for social justice. Written by a first-generation Kannada Dalit writer, the book provides an insider’s view of caste...

The book takes a close look into the definitions and categorizations of marginality, inequality, agency and location in society. It examines the systems of marginalization and othering by exploring perspectives of socially excluded people and communities...

Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to...

Between Black and Brown begins with a question: How do individuals with one African American parent and one Mexican American parent identify racially and ethnically? In answer, the authors explore the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African...

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. As a visibly different minoritised group, Black African youth are often represented as disengaged, dangerous, and undesirable. Even so, rarely are generative mechanisms that...