Race & Ethnic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Eastern European Immigrant Families

   By Mihaela Robila

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central to the discourse of migration to the US, the rapid growth of Eastern European immigrants has received insufficient attention. Robila...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

   Demystifying the Model Minority

   By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Race and Ethnicity: The Key Concepts

   By Amy Ansell

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Situating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education

   Edited by Susana Gonçalves, Markus A. Carpenter

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement

   By Randolph Hohle

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality, and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

   Edited by E. Ann McDougall

   Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Yes We Can?

   White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition

   By Adia Harvey-Wingfield, Joe Feagin

   The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?

    The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education

    By Martyn Hammersley

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge