Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the contributors to this volume explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. They suggest how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies.
Does Asian American denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? This book examines the discourse on race and law.
Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)--a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade--is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. Since its violent ......
Family ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. This volume provides extensive information about the various cultural elements that different family groups have drawn upon in order to exist in the United States today. The sections cover Native American Indians, Native Hawaiians, ......
Family ethnicity involves the unique family customs, proverbs, and stories that are passed on for generations. This volume provides extensive information about the various cultural elements that different family groups have drawn upon in order to exist in the United States today. The sections cover Native American Indians, Native Hawaiians, ......
Speaking with a nonnative accent has substantial consequences for interaction. This book reports on a study of the evaluation of nonnative speakers of Dutch by native Dutch listeners.Evaluations of nonnative speakers from Turkey, Morocco, Surinam, the Antilles, Germany, and England were found to be based on stereotypic views on the nonnative ......
From a historical and cultural point of view, South Africa and Western Europe have much in common. The sociolinguistic commonalities are clearly evident in the status and use of English and Afrikaans, both of which have their roots in an intricate European migration history.This volume aims at capturing new facts about multilingualism in these two ......
"Nation, Empire, Colony" examines women's situation within the workings of gender in the historical construction of nations, empires, and colonies. The contributors reveal the power relations of gender, class, race, and sexuality at the heart of the histories of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism that have shaped our modern world. The period ......
With contributions from researchers in many areas, Doing Ethnographic Research reveals the problems they encountered in their respective fields and how they tackled them. '
