One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri...
Ethnicity
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Author:Balcárcel, RebeccaSummary: -
Author:Summary:"The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers a comprehensive and challenging selection of readings for students of sociology, politics, international relations and race relations. Updated with a large proportion of new...
- Author:Spathelfer, TeoniSummary:
A young Indigenous girl moves to the big city and learns to find connections to her culture and the land wherever she goes, despite encountering bullies and feelings of isolation along the way. When Little Wolf moves to the big city...
- Author:Besco, RandySummary:
Identities and Interests offers an entirely new perspective on the role of racial and ethnic identities in Canadian elections. Using a series of experiments, as well as candidate and census data, Randy Besco demonstrates that self-...
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Author:Tawada, YōkoSummary: -
Author:Eriksen, Thomas HyllandSummary:Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In...
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Author:Ericksen, Thomas HyllandSummary:Eriksen (social anthropology, U. of Oslo) surveys his field's theories and treatments on the construction of ethnicity and nations, comparing and evaluating their respective claims. The work was written to serve as a core text for...
- Author:Ruthnum, NabenSummary:
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that...
- Author:Wilkerson, IsabelSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ; OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK ; LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ; “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New...
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Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us...
