Minority Studies

What does it mean to be an Asian-American in the United States today? Are Asian-Americans considered ""honorary whites"" or forever thought of as ""foreigners?"" Mia Tuan examines the salience and meaning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016235Author C. Eric LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806168906Author Merline PitreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Although the Kurds have attracted widespread international attention, Iranian Kurdistan has been largely overlooked. This book examines the consequences of modernity and modernisation for Iran's Kurdish society in the 20th century. Marouf Cabi argues...

This book explores the genealogy of the concept of 'Medz Yeghern' ('Great Crime'), the Armenian term for the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Armenian ethno-religious group in the Ottoman Empire between the years 1915-1923. Widely accepted by...

In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external -...

This much-needed study documents positive Arab-American contributions to American life and culture, especially in the last decade, debunking myths and common negative perceptions that were exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror. The term...

How has America, with its many ethnic, class, and ideological divisions, allowed divergent groups to "hang together" as Americans? In this book, a distinguished historian explores the ways in which Americans have conceived of a national...

Americans increasingly blame the failures of minority individuals in our society on "racial" inferiority. Anthropologist Mark Nathan Cohen argues cogently that the problems are cultural, not "racial," and that they are rooted in the assumptions of...

This accessible, challenging discussion of race relations looks at how institutions shape individual experience and asks how we can prevent a violent splintering of American society along racial lines in the 21st century. Arguing that the best way to...

More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American...

More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American...

Governmental social institutions are responsible for major policy decisions that deeply affect our everyday lives. This edited collection analyzes the effects of the main macro-social systems-law and politics, economic development, education, social...

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...

On the evening of November 8, 2008, as news of Barack Obama's presidential victory spread, images flashed across television screens, showing the emotional reactions of people across the country and the world. As Obama gave his acceptance speech, the...

In Chinatown Gangs, Ko-lin Chin penetrates a closed society and presents a rare portrait of the underworld of New York City's Chinatown. Based on first-hand accounts from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities,...

Since unification, Germany has undergone profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, anti-Semitic incidents, and racist violence. This book will present the most recent findings on German public opinion, private attitudes,...

More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to segregation of the races by law, current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty about the meaning of race in American...

The first study of its kind to address the issue of ethnic diversity, Minority Citizens in Disasters focuses on the responses of two minorities-blacks and Mexican-Americans-relative to whites in three disaster events: a propane car derailment, a nitric...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604591941Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory; the latter the social delineation of differences. ...

Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centers of black political influence in the late nineteenth century, North Carolina's second congressional district. From its creation in 1872 as a result of gerrymandering to its collapse in the extremism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780831855Author Peyman VahabzadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint H&s MediaPublisher H&s MediaWeight(grams) 222g

This volume provides the first in-depth examination of the impact of the key sociological issues faced by the new Obama Administration and explores conventional topics on race and ethnic relations as well as delving into new areas of intellectual inquiry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169969179Author William I ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Social cohesion is one of the declared objectives of the European Union and, with some 16% of EU citizens at risk of poverty, the need to fight poverty and social exclusion continues as a major challenge. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the EU...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884855290Author Rose HakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Secretarius Memps PublicationsPublisher Secretarius Memps PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Religion and welfare in Europe compares regional conceptions and variations of welfare in relation to national religious traditions across key parts of Europe. Using comparative case studies focusing on gender and minority perspectives, the book examines...

Malaysia is among the most ethnically diverse and culturally rich nations on earth. Yet much of its cultural wealth lies buried beneath the rubric of its main Malay, Chinese and Indian ""race"" categories; the dazzling diversity within and outside these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604591965Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801350747Author Liliana Meza GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams)...

Anti-Semitism was a major feature of both late Tsarist and Stalinist as well as neo-Stalinist Russian politics. What does this legacy entail for the emergence of post-Soviet politics? What are the sources, ideologies, permutations, and expressions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949680157Author Chirag SagarFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Mr. Century City, LLC.Publisher Mr. Century City, LLC.Weight(grams) 218g

In Black, White, and Southern, David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419609961Author Kirklin R AnglinFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598241273Author Anthony P JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint E-Booktime, LLCPublisher E-Booktime, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Singapore's Malay (Muslim) community, constituting about 15 per cent of the total population and constitutionally enshrined as the indigenous people of Singapore, have had its fair share of progress and problems in the history of this country. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980075656Author Norman Anthony PeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Light MessagesPublisher Light MessagesWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604591989Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...