Tag: Ethnic

Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups Theory, Research, and Practice


Free Download Dr. Edward C. Chang PhD, "Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice "
English | ISBN: 1433821486 | 2016 | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Positive psychology has become a vibrant, well-regarded field of study, and a powerful tool for clinicians. But, for many years, the research in areas relevant to positive psychology, such as happiness, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence, has been based on findings from largely white samples and has rarely taken the concerns of the ethnic community into consideration.

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Complete Mediterranean Diet Ethnic Food Cookbook


Free Download Complete Mediterranean Diet Ethnic Food Cookbook : The Best 350+ Mediterranean Ethnic Recipes for Beginners; Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, Egyptian, Turkish, Maghreb. Quick and Easy for Eating Healthy at Home
by Giuseppe Sorrentino
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9798201730291 | 1071 Pages | ePUB/PDF | 25 MB

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Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia Racializing Chineseness


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2011 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 904818908X | PDF | 3 MB
Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine


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English | 2017 | ISBN: B077KDH396 | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 40 minutes | 168 Mb
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing." Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

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Resettling the Borderlands State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus


Free Download Farid Shafiyev, "Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0773553533, 0773553525 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.8 mb
Until the arrival of the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century, the South Caucasus was traditionally contested by two Muslim empires, the Ottomans and the Persians. Over the following two centuries, Orthodox Christian Russia – and later the officially atheist Soviet Union – expanded into the densely populated Muslim towns and villages and began a long process of resettlement, deportation, and interventionist population management in an attempt to incorporate the region into its own lands and culture. Exploring the policies and implementations of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Resettling the Borderlands investigates the nexus between imperial practices, foreign policy, religion, and ethnic conflicts. Taking a comparative approach, Farid Shafiyev looks at the most active phases of resettlement, when the state imported and relocated waves of German, Russian sectarian, and Armenian settlers into the South Caucasus and deported thousands of others. He also offers insights on the complexities of empire-building and managing space and people in the Muslim borderlands to reveal the impact of demographic changes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Combining in-depth and original analysis of archival material with a clear and accessible narrative, Resettling the Borderlands provides a new interpretation of the colonial policies, ideologies, and strategic visions in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

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Mystifying China’s Southwest Ethnic Borderlands Harmonious Heterotopia


Free Download Yuqing Yang, "Mystifying China’s Southwest Ethnic Borderlands: Harmonious Heterotopia"
English | ISBN: 1498502970 | 2017 | 262 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Confucian notion of "Harmony with difference" (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultural and ethnic components of society. In an attempt to examine a range of responses to this state-envisioned ideal of accommodating ethnic differences, this book analyzes the literary and cultural discourses that surround three minority regions in Southwest China – Dali, which was once the location of the ancient Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms; the homeland of the matrilineal Mosuo known as the Country of Women; and the Tibetan areas associated with utopian Shangri-La. This book borrows Foucault’s concept of "heterotopia" to address the contradictory and often simultaneously existing views of the minority region as rich treasure house of tradition and as intractable barrier to modern development which combine to give rise to productive tensions in scholastic and artistic creations. Through reconstituting and performing the myths and legends of or about minority culture, the representations of the three places turn into heterotopias which are posed between the mythical and the real in different ways. Functioning as a self-reflective mirror, they simultaneously offer images of the actual habitats of the ethnic other which have been subject to socialist projects of modernity, and become a viable means by which to exert material effects on the real landscape. Products of a fascination with alternative social spaces, the three mystified lands all contain conceptualizations of harmony – be it spiritual, gender-based or ecological – that are conceivably absent in the imperfect actuality of the Chinese heartland. In conclusion, these aesthetically constructed spaces of the other negotiate and enrich the discourse of "Harmony with difference," reacting to ethnic politics in PRC history and creating an audience that grows attentive to the traditions of minorities.

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Greater Tibet An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas


Free Download P. Christiaan Klieger, "Greater Tibet: An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas"
English | ISBN: 1498506445 | 2015 | 178 pages | EPUB | 1021 KB
The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy. This collection of papers is inspired by a panel on Greater Tibet held at the XIIIth meeting of the International Association of Tibet Studies in Ulaan Baatar in 2013. Participants included leading Tibet scholars, experts in international law, and Tibetan officials.

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