Minority Studies 4

This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the B……続きを見る

Imagine if one day, a la The Truman Show, you woke up to find that everything you believed was the result of a careful manipulation of your life by someone else? What if much of what you believed wa……続きを見る

2006 ー Runner-up, Arab American National Museum Book Awards The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "……続きを見る

An incisive analysis of the use of the press for propaganda purposes during conflicts, using the first Gulf War and the intervention in Kosovo as case studies. As the contemporary analysis of propag……続きを見る

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a C……続きを見る

In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in……続きを見る

This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural val……続きを見る

Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in com……続きを見る

The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners presents a unique sociological analysis of the daily negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world o……続きを見る

Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times……続きを見る

This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those intera……続きを見る

Over the last 20 years, ethnic minority groups have been increasingly featured in Japanese Films. However, the way these groups are presented has not been a subject of investigation. This study exam……続きを見る

In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Aran……続きを見る

PARADIDÁTICOS - SÉRIE: PODER Obra de rara oportunidade que propicia o conhecimento da realidade dos sem-terra para além da caricatura muitas vezes veiculada pela mídia. Podem ser acompanhadas as che……続きを見る

In addition to information on crime and incarceration rates, White-collar crime, and the typical criminal, the discussion of minorities and public perceptions is set within a broader context inclu……続きを見る

From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of recent years have generated security concerns about……続きを見る

John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an e……続きを見る

Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies m……続きを見る

Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they hav……続きを見る

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on ho……続きを見る

From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most perso……続きを見る

"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."ーLaurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once a……続きを見る

“A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examinationーand his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual, cultural, and class fault lines that thread our psychic and social landscapeーis……続きを見る

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 cate……続きを見る

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the str……続きを見る

A Single Source For History On Black History Subjects Including Affirmative Action, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, Jr., The Fifteenth and Thirtee……続きを見る

In one of the only accounts of Latino legislative behavior, Stella M. Rouse examines how well the growing Latino population translates their increased presence into legislative influence. Latinos in……続きを見る

This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, wh……続きを見る

This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects fro……続きを見る

In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, mu……続きを見る