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Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
A New History of Asian America is an updated, synthetic, and interpretive history of Asians in the United States from the late 18th century to the present. The book illustrates for the undergraduate student the distinct aspects of the Asian American experience while presenting the narrative...
To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge
South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There...
To Be Published September 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in Asian Americans
This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ‘Japan-bashing’, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: ThirdWorlds
Development discourses and academic development knowledge reflect to a large extent the interests of the ‘North’. The Antipodes – Australia and New Zealand - share an ambivalent location as countries of the ‘North' in wealth, development and dominant intellectual genealogies but ‘South' in latitude...
To Be Published October 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Over the last two decades, Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s, re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub, and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces,...
To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book revisits the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond. It looks at the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised as comprising communities whose identity, on both individual and collective levels, is grounded in a sense of...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Recent decades have witnessed the growth of a new interest, both scholarly and political, in migration and diaspora. This book focuses on three groups of Muslim Bengali migrants. One group had migrated across international borders after partition and settled in Britain; the second had crossed...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
