Ethnic Studies

Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its part...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

This book offers the most comprehensive account available of Tibetan nationalism, Sino-Tibetan relations, and the issue of Tibetan self-determinati...

This book explores the history of the whaling controversy in U.S.-Japan relations, whaling as a resource, the status of whaling in international la...

Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in ...

Asian migration and mobilities are transforming education cultures in the Anglosphere, prompting mounting debates about tiger mothers and dragon ch...

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How Afr...

This book explores how the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the leading centre of spiritual authority in the Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, coped with...

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'...

Zen Buddhism was founded in China in the 6th century, and its direct path to Enlightenment first came west in 1927 with D. T. Suzuki's first Essays...

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression ...

Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was call...

Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations reflects on the tensions and contradictions that arise within debates on social inclusion, argui...

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts i...

Remarkable insights into the profound Japanese concern 'for defending the cherished Japanese values amid an era of fantastic change', writes Peter ...

This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which ...

For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian ...

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression ...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

The management of ethnic diversity has become a topical and often controversial subject in recent times, with much debate surrounding multicultural...

Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either c...

How is Latin American music heard, by whom, and why? Many in the United States believe Latin American musicians make Latin musicwhich carries with ...

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition....

Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants private...