Race & Ethnic Studies Books

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71. Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

    By Kwok-bun Chan

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
72. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

    Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

    This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
73. Racial Profiling

    They Stopped Me Because I'm ------------!

    By Michael L. Birzer

    Many racial minority communities claim profiling occurs frequently in their neighborhoods. Police authorities, for the most part, deny that they engage in racially biased police tactics. A handful of books have been published on the topic, but they tend to offer only anecdotal reports offering...

    Published November 13th 2012 by CRC Press
74. Minority within a Minority

    Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance

    By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    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 strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures....

    Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
75. Anti-Muslim Prejudice

    Past and Present

    Edited by Maleiha Malik

    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 from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes,...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
76. The Paradox of Federalism

    Does Self-Rule Accommodate or Exacerbate Ethnic Divisions?

    Edited by Jan Erk, Lawrence M. Anderson

    The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions. A federal arrangement which formally recognizes ethno-linguistic diversity to help manage divisions can also pave the way for eventual disintegration. The case studies in this book cover a wide...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
77. Feminist Therapy with Latina Women

    Personal and Social Voices

    Edited by Debra M. Kawahara, Oliva Espín

    Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks. The authors are all experienced therapists and researchers with a deep...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
78. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

    Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
79. Are Human Rights for Migrants?

    Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour, Tobias Kelly

    Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the promised protection of human rights seems to break down when it comes to the lived...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
80. Music, Difference and the Residue of Race

    By Jo Haynes

    Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

    Race and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the understanding of music genres and preferences? What...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge