Ethnic studies (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and write...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It illustrates how, through their discursive practices, social workers are able to counteract the dominant...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and confl...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Der Band beantwortet die Frage, wie einzelne Kommunen zu Orten der Ausgrenzung z. B. für Flüchtlinge werden. Hierzu werden am Beispiel der ostsächsischen Stadt Bautzen Ergebnisse einer Mixed-Methods Studie präsentiert, in der sowohl Survey-Daten als ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to President of the Uni...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America using interviews with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, empirical data, news accounts, academic literature and...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and acros...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonpl...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls...