Ethnic Studies

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north Indi...

The western, one of Hollywoods great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at ...

This text offers an international and comparative analysis of social division rooted in race, ethnicity and national identity. It provides an overv...

This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies.Two major points are made in t...

Looks to provide an analysis of religion as a dynamic factor in Indian society. Not only is the ritual, economic and power status of the missionari...

Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the...

This title was first published in 1992: This book compares stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new Asian democracy Japa...

Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the countrys economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia ...

This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have hadand...

This collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the standard wisdom that European or Christian value systems and soci...

A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for ...

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French ...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russias North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and conflict. This book, based...

Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from ...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region....

The 1959 Chinese military takeover of Tibet brought an end to a unique way of life in which Buddhism provided legitimacy to political and social au...