books about: ethnicity     books:       Whoever You Are28 reviews Mem Fox Topeka Bindery, 2003 We Love Who You Are, Mem Fox. I owned this book before I even had children. I used it in the classroom as a teaching tool. To drive the point home, I would have the children try to mix piant together to make their shade of skin pigment. They were amazed at how no one is white, and no one is black. This book is an example that we are different, but we aren't alone...There are others like us. We ARE all the same inside... ...             Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Race and Ethnicity in the ...4 reviews Art T. Burton University of Nebraska Press, 2006 An Excellent Biography Professor Burton's book about Bass Reeves combines thorough, meticulous scholarship on the details of Reeves' long career as a lawman with a most impressive general knowledge of the times in which he lived. The result is a biography unlikely to be surpassed. A question that has long interested me, and is asked by this book, concerns the criteria of historical remembrance. Why, for example, is ...             Being Muslim the Bosnian Way4 reviews Tone Bringa Princeton University Press, 1995 Excellent description of Bosnian Muslims Over the past three years I've become close to a Bosnian Muslim extended family living in Central Texas. This past summer I was invited to spent almost 3 weeks in the Sanski Most area. About two years ago I read this book, and it has been invaluable in helping me understand customs practiced in Bosnia, and to some extent practiced in the U.S. when practical. I gave the book to one of the youth ...             The Economics and Politics of Race6 reviews Thomas Sowell Harper Perennial, 1985 Cultural relativism under attack The message of Thomas Sowell's "The Economics and Politics of Race" is simple and easy to understand: human cultures are not equal and some of them are better than others, their patterns of values having a more decisive role in the social perfomance of their respective members than any alleged, or even real and appaling, discrimination. Sowell demonstrates that ethnic groups perform differently, ...             Ethnicity and Family Therapy (Guilford Family Therapy Series, The)19 reviews The Guilford Press, 1982 Ethnicity and Family Therapy 3rd edition Review I believe this book is vitally important to anyone in the field of Social Work. I have found it to be extremely helpful in getting to know a little more about some of cultural belief of the client I've been working with. I have also gotten their individual perspectives from just asking them a little about their cultural belief systems as they interupt them for themselves.             How They Shine : Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia (The Melungeons : History, Culture, ...5 reviews Katherine Vande Brake Mercer University Press, 2001 Focusing on the wealth of Melungeon culture How They Shine: Melungeon Characters In The Fiction Of Appalachia by Katherine Vande Brake (Associate Professor of English, King College, Bristol, Tennessee) is the first critical study of Melungeon characters in written fiction. Focusing on the wealth of Melungeon culture and how the Melungeon people have been viewed through the ages, particularly through the eyes of writers who identify them ...             Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader5 reviews Jossey-Bass, 2002 For everyone interested in health care This readable compendium of stellar research is important reading for anyone involved in or interested in health care today. It is also an escellent compilation of well-designed studies that challenge status quo thinking; it would be an excellent text for a research methodology course. This Public Health reader is also appropiratie for individual readings as well as a text for courses in ...             A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church5 reviews Gerardo Marti Indiana University Press, 2005 Phenomenal MUST Read for Emerging Christianity This book is an artform. The work is an in-depth glimpse of the inner-workings of the emerging church that many philosophize and prophesize about, yet never have the opportunity to live within. The care and balance that Marti brought to the project as a pastor and scholar was obvious and reassuring. I am confident that Gerardo's work will provide a methodological basis that provides others with ...             Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments and Practices of a Diverse Congregation (J-B ...8 reviews Mark DeYmaz Jossey-Bass, 2007 A church for all people? Tell me where! Most of us only dream of attending a church where all people worship as one. Mark has not only written a great book (both theologically sound and highly instuctive on how to make it happen), but he is living it out as a Pastor in a part of the country where churches are still highly segregated. My wife and I attend the same multi-ethnic church... we love it! And if we ever had to move, we would ...             To Love Mercy26 reviews Frank S. Joseph Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2006 Strongly Recommended I've never read a story quite like To Love Mercy, but I wish there were others like it. The unique way the book was written and laid-out really kept me reading and eager to find out what was going to happen next. I am no author, but I know that writing from the perspective of someone else takes a lot of talent. Frank Joseph did this fluently and creatively, which provided me with complete ...             Taken: A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity4 reviews Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst iUniverse, Inc., 2006 It puts you present in the story, pulling at your heartstrings. This is a story that aches with poignancy yet maintains a dignity, strength and sense of hope that is as uplifting as it is rare. It provides an important insight into a forgotten ethnic group and while it is one family's story, it is representative of the experience of countless eastern Europeans in the World War II era. The book is a great story and good history lesson, but is also relevant ...             The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States4 reviews Ursula M. Brown Praeger Publishers, 2000 From a Parent of an Interracial Child As a parent of a mixed race child I have been troubled by the extreme lack of research and literature that addresses the adjustment of mixed race children. This book finally addresses this gap. The author highlights the unique emotional and social needs of interracial people. I found her discussion of experiences in the family, community, school and dating that help or undermine the adjustment of ...             All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage3 reviews Armand L. Mauss University of Illinois Press, 2003 Uh, Mauss is a Mormon And he's not talking about how Mormon conceptions go down in Africa, but in America, the land of our religion's birth. This is an excellent book, thought-provoking yet fair. If you want to get a better grasp of the history of race and lineage within Mormonism from it's beginnings up to the present, this book is the one to order.             Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space3 reviews Rick Bonus Temple University Press, 2000 Power in Everyday Life This review was published in the fall 2001 issue of _The Pacific Reader: An Asian Pacific North American Review of Books_. Why do I feel such a deep sense of comfort when I am rummaging through dried fish, canned sardines and Spam at one of the many corner groceries along Jackson Street and Beacon Hill? What social function could "Filipino Time" (i.e., being perpetually late for meetings) serve ...             THE ORIGINATORS a novel4 reviews NoteWellPublishers, 2006 Better than DaVinci Code! If you're looking for a historical novel laced with intrigue and compelling dialogue, then this is your summer reading! The author weaves actual scientific and historical facts into a science fiction/thriller, leaving you to question assumptions held about politics and energy dependence.             The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 (Cambridge Studies in ...3 reviews Florin Curta Cambridge University Press, 2001 Curta, The Making of the Slavs The main purpose of this volume is "to explore the nature and construction of the Slavic ethnic identity in the light of the current anthropological research on ethnicity". The author proposes an innovative vision about the archaeological evidence, considering that the ethnic boundaries were marked by items of material culture (features of an "emblemic style" used by an ethnic group in order to ...             Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West (Race and Ethnicity in the American West)4 reviews Matthew C. Whitaker University of Nebraska Press, 2005 African American Struggle and the New American West This is the most important book on African Americans in the West in recent years and builds excellently on the scholarship of Quintard Taylor and others. Dr. Whitaker shows how the Ragsdale's livelihood came through the mortuary business, but was not a dead end for the family, in fact it infused them and the African American community in Phoenix with the lifeblood of cultural and economic ...             Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities (Interdisciplinary ...4 reviews Melissa J. Brown University of California Press, 2004 Been Waiting For This! At last, a book that covers an aspect of Taiwanese history and culture not often discussed until recent years: the Taiwanese people are a hybrid people. Many have some Plains Aborigine blood (traced on the maternal side). But, with cultural stigma, many Plains Aborigines and part Plains Aborigines forfeited their identity and were absorbed by "Han" identity. I've been waiting for a book in ...             Coming to America (Second Edition): A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life4 reviews Roger Daniels Harper Perennial, 2002 The sine qua non for understanding immigration to America Roger Daniels second edition of "Coming to America" is masterful. There is no other book, I believe, that is more authoritative by way of explaining immigration to the United States during the final third of the twentieth century. And for those interested in exploring the story extending back to the European settlement of North America since the seventeenth century, "Coming to America" is also ...             Loving Mountains, Loving Men (Ethnicity & Gender In Appalach)3 reviews Jeff Mann Ohio University Press, 2005 Bravo! Talk about dual crosses to bear, in a small West Virginia town, if you cared what people thought........ [we had] the most colorfully freakish family in Summers County. Only my mother, bless her, was normal." " Jeff Mann's "­Loving Mountains, Loving Men" is as enjoyable as it is painful. I grew up in small town Appalachia as a confused and lonely lesbian. 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