Minority Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846118Author Ursula HegiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

The twentieth century brought industrialization to Texas cities. For Mexican workers in the state, this meant worsening economic conditions, widespread discrimination, and an indifferent or at times hostile Anglo labor movement. Faced with such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805058444Author Edward LaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Holt PaperbacksPublisher Holt PaperbacksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692052280Author J Kelly Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint J.KellyPublisher J.KellyWeight(grams) 122g

Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally, societies make and mark their majorities under specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312283179Author Daniel R WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550711011Author Richard GambinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525300886Author Georg RuhrmannFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878610645Author Patricia Justiniani McReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books)Publisher Museum of New...

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' – TLSFans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental...

In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986 to...

The U.S. military can be thought of as a microcosm of American society, bringing in people from diverse backgrounds and history to defend one nation. Military leaders must address the same issues and concerns as those found in the civilian world,...

This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration...

The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was...

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...

"Even though we lived a few blocks away in our neighborhood or sat a seat or two away in elementary school, a vast chasm of class and racial difference separated us from them."-From the Introduction What is it like to be white, poor, and socially...

Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles...

Asian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. In 1996, more than 300 Asian and Pacific Americans were elected to federal, state, and local offices; today, more than 2,000 hold appointive positions in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806591Author Gus HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

When Latinos in the United States was first published in 1986, it was hailed as a "triumph" by the National Catholic Reporter, "inspiring" by the journal American Studies, and was named an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by...

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,...

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the...

Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855756628Author Elizabeth OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society...

In seemingly exhaustive arguments about identity as a category of analysis, we have made a critical error-one that Michael Hames-Garcia sets out to correct in this revisionary look at the making and meaning of social identities. We have asked how...

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...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their race. And yet, people are continually categorized according to their race--Afro- Caribbean, white,...

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...

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...

A Stanford University Press classic.About the AuthorSusan Olzak is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. She is the author of The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict (Stanford University Press, 1992).Reviews"Susan Olzak promises a great...

When a society or nation contains many cultures, large or small, with differing institutional and organizations networks, individuals and groups must, in order to successfully navigate their passages within and between cultures, learn to act and react to...

The indigenous people of the hemisphere have resisted a five-hundred-year assault, fighting to maintain their cultural identities. During this time, authorities in the Americas have insisted that the toleration of indigenous societies and cultures would...

Up to 750,000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning more Medals of Honor and other decorations in proportion to their numbers than any other ethnic group. Mexican American women entered the workforce on the home front, supporting the war...

This edited volume captures an exciting new trend in research on intergroup attitudes and relations, which concerns how individuals make judgments, and interact with individuals from different group categories, broadly defined in terms of gender, race,...

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of 'place'. Too often we are told about 'deprived neighbourhoods' but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to...

Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe. Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies...

Although the definition of what constitutes low income varies significantly from one country to the next, it is always below average and people who have it score high on the misery index. This book brings together leading researchers from around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476743868Author Tom GjeltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

From its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, working-class neighbourhood. The famous New York district nurtured the aspirations of thousands of upwardly mobile...