Race & Ethnic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity

   Building Global Understanding

   Edited by Daryl Adair

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America

   Immigration and Political Mobilization

   Edited by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

   Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States

   By Tanya Golash-Boza

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describes the consequences of this lack of due process through the stories of deportees and detainees....

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

   By Danny Méndez

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

   Revolution in the Twenty-first Century

   Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Anup Kumar Pahari

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

   By Henry A. Giroux

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical...

   Published January 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)

   Remembering postwar immigration

   By Catherine Panich

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In the ten years immediately following the Second World War, some 170 000 immigrants from Europe and Britain arrived in Australia. First published in 1988, this unique book recreates the experiences of those who fled a ravaged Europe to seek a new life in far-distant Australia. Their stories are...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities

   Visible and Invisible Muslims

   Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft, Jørgen Nielsen

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Genetics and Global Public Health

    Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia

    Edited by Simon Dyson, Karl Atkin

    Sickle cell and thalassaemia are among the world’s most common genetic conditions. They are especially common in Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia. They affect all ethnic groups but they particularly impact on minority ethnic groups in North America, Europe and Australasia....

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge