Asian Studies - Race & Ethnics Books

New and Published Books

1. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

   By Jennifer Snow

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

   A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

   By Pál Nyiri

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Bollywood Travels

   Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

   By Rajinder Dudrah

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. South Asian Transnationalisms

   Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century

   Edited by Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

   Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo

   Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

   This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Diaspora and Class Consciousness

   Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

   By Shanshan Lan

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. A Sociology of Japanese Youth

   From Returnees to NEETs

   Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. Young Chinese in Urban China

   By Alex Cockain

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves. The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods;...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Non-discrimination and Equality in India

    Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice

    By Vidhu Verma

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present,...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge