books: ethnicity and ...     books:       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 ...             The Scotch-Irish: A Social History18 reviews James G. Leyburn The University of North Carolina Press, 1989 The birth and assimilation of a people Book contents: foreword - 2pp, table of contents - 4 pp, text -344pp (including 5 maps), timeline of Scotland - 3pp, notes -16pp, bibliography - 19pp, and index - 5 pp. Overall the book was very good, particularly for someone like myself who wasn't certain his roots were Scotch or Scotch Irish. It was well researched. The maps of America were not particularly helpful. It was not ...             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 ...             Bronx Masquerade76 reviews Nikki Grimes Puffin, 2003 Beautiful!!! This book was a good book. It went deep into the poet's soul. It also went deep into the poet's life. I am doing this for an English assignment. I wouldn't read this book because of what the cover looked like or unless I was told to do so. But after I read the first few chapters I was amazed at how judgment was wrong. Don't Judge a Book by its cover!!             Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Book)28 reviews Mem Fox Voyager Books, 2006 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... ...             Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition20 reviews The Guilford Press, 2005 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.             Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1)10 reviews Arjun Appadurai University of Minnesota Press, 1996 An ambitious attempt, and some provocative thinking Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, and technoscapes. All are different ways of looking at the global cultural flows that we're trying to describe, and all are ...             Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops1 review Ginetta Candelario Duke University Press, 2007 Hey I wrote a rather legnthy (for me anyways) review yesterday! What happend? it still says no reviews. Either way... very good book. I found it fun to read yet very substantive and informative. I like the sociological perspective. A must read for any Dominicano, esspecialy those, like myself, who moved to the north east and grew up uncertain about who I was racially, with others ascribing race to ...             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 ...             Walking Toward The Sunset: The Melungeons Of Appalachia (Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, & ...8 reviews Wayne Winkler Mercer University Press, 2005 The Best Overview of Melungeons Of all the books about Melungeons, this is the one you want to own. In an unbiased manner, Winkler gives a complete overview of the history and legends of the Melungeons, reviews all the theories, and is as objective a writer as you would want to find. He has no ax to grind or theory to promote; he wants the reader to understand all the theories and make their own judgments. All he asks is that ...             Democracy and Difference1 review Princeton University Press, 1996 Excellent Introduction This is an excellent introduction for someone interested in models of the public sphere. While all the authors are proponents of the deliberative model of democracy (as opposed to, for instance, the liberal, interest-based, technocratic, communitarian, or civic-republican) many of them place their arguments in the context of other models. So, the book reads like a symposium of like-minded ...             How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart8 reviews Correspondents of The New York Times Times Books, 2002 Relevant, important, and a pleasure to read I had the opportunity to read some of the testimonials and accounts that appear in this book when they were first published as a series in the New York Times. When I read the book, I had the chance to enjoy a few narratives that I had missed. This book makes a great effort to put into focus the dynamic of race relations in America. All the stories are touching and beautifully written. The ...             Ethnicity (Oxford Readers)3 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Highly recommendable Excellent textbook with well selected texts and good structure. Very useful for introductory lectures in ethnicity and ethnic identity. Helps to spare a lot of time in finding important texts. Certainly one of the best introductory books for the area.             Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity3 reviews David G. Gutiérrez University of California Press, 1995 One of the most important books in Chicano history This book truly marks a turning point in Chicano history by interrogating the similarities and differences between Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans in the U.S. The metaphor of Walls and Mirrors sums up the relationship between immigrants and longtime U.S. residents: they shared cultural, labor/class, and daily social ties, but political and civic goals divided them. This book, then, is ...             Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change10 reviews Joseph F. Healey Pine Forge Press, 2008 Needed book for college and received it right on time... This is a great vendor, I need the book right away and send the vendor a note and I got a response back right away. The vendor even kept me up do date on when the book was going to be shipped, this is a well trusted vendor...             Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity Into a Competitive Edge Kenneth Arroyo Roldan, Gary Stern Collins Business, 2006 In a perfect corporate world, intellect, hard work, and professionalism would be recognized and rewarded regardless of the color of your skin. Kenneth Arroyo Roldan is here to tell you that nobody works in a perfect corporate world. Stellar performance alone will not determine corporate advancement?minorities need to learn and follow the rules of corporate politics. As one African American employee who started as a systems analyst at Xerox ...             Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity1 review Charles A. Gallagher McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 History at a certaim perspective I think this book was an amazing example of telling history from a certaim viewpoint without forcing an opinion upon someone. It is an excellent choice for anyone with the desire to learn more on the history of race and culture. I found it to be educational, yet interesting at the same time.             On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream1 review Conrad Kottak, Kathryn Kozaitis McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007 On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream ( The book arrived quickly as promised and was in good condition as promised. I will definitely purchase again from Amazon. As a matter of fact, I am going to look for a book today.             Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-19452 reviews George J. Sanchez Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 A Great Cultural Historical Analysis This is an incredibly rich and well thought out book on an often neglected area of American History. Sanchez assumes a strong background in Historical and Cultural studies that I initially found difficult. Once I worked through it though it was well worth the effort. It was one of those rare books that I felt a better rounded historian after reading as well as more knowedgable about the ...             The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing3 reviews Michael Mann Cambridge University Press, 2004 Fair book, interesting thesis, but read his "Fascists" first I liked this book, and found it to be a nice companion piece to Mann's book on fascists. In fact, I would say these two books are really best seen as two volumes of a single work on the forces that create and sustain organic nationalism, and then propel it down the path of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Is this specific work and the larger treatise on organic nationalism flawed? 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