Tag: Ethnic

Free Download Matthijs Bogaards, Matthias Basedau, Christof Hartmann, "Ethnic Party Bans in Africa"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1138946494 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 0.9 mb
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other socio-cultural attributes. More than a hundred political parties have been dissolved, suspended or denied registration on these grounds. This book documents the experience with ethnic party bans in Africa, traces its origins, examines its record, and answers the question whether ethnic party bans are an effective and legitimate instrument in the prevention of ethnic conflict.

Free Download Kinglsey M. De Silva, "Ethnic Conflict In Buddhist Societies: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367153092 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.6 mb
This book is an outcome of South and South-east Asia regional workshop on ‘Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma’. It mainly focuses on policy issues. The key theme of the book is the role of religions play in both the exacerbation and amelioration of ethnic conflict.

Free Download Hayashi Yukio, "Dynamics of ethnic cultures across national boundaries in Southwestern China and mainland Southeast Asia: Relations, societies, and languages"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 9747791188 | PDF | pages: 312 | 7.5 mb

Free Download Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care"
English | 2009 | pages: 781 | ISBN: 030908265X, 0309085322 | PDF | 4,9 mb
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, increasing evidence that even after such differences are accounted for, race and ethnicity remain significant predictors of the quality of health care received.

Free Download Ines M. Miyares, Christopher A. Airriess, "Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America"
English | 2006 | pages: 426 | ISBN: 0742537722 | PDF | 6,1 mb
Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception. From the migration of the ancestors of Native Americans to the increasingly diverse immigrant populations arriving today, it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of the United States as a country and "Americans" as a people. At an ever-increasing pace, America today is experiencing watershed changes in its social, cultural, and ethnic/racial geographies.

Free Download Adrienne D. Warner, "Ethnic and Cultural Identity: Perceptions, Discrimination and Social Challenges "
English | ISBN: 1634838718 | 2015 | 265 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides the latest research in ethnic and cultural identity. The first chapter examines the relationship between ethnic identity, culture, body dissatisfaction and related disorder eating behaviors among diverse ethnic groups of adolescent and young female adults. The second chapter discusses migrants’ perceptions of intergroup relations and ethnic group statue in the host society. The third chapter provides an overview of research on perceived discrimination, which is considered the most severe stressor for minority individuals given its persuasive impact on health and well-being. The fourth and fifth chapters include discussions on the relationship between openness to experience, ethnocentrism, and ethnic prejudice, and the effects of language policy on ethnic minority language maintenance among a relatively newer community in Manchester. The sixth chapter examines how social, gendered, and economic forces have changed the ways in which family systems create and sustain a familial identity. The second half of the book includes a narrative analysis to explore how a sample of Muslim-identified women attributed meaning to the practice of veiling and the contexts by which women decided to – or not to -wear the hijab; a summary of the results of a qualitative study exploring the influence of discrimination on identity negotiation in transracial international adoptees; provides a review of established health risks to Latino-identifying persons in the United States and successful interventions with various samples; deconstructs the Latin lover stereotype; and finally, maps racial neoliberalism in U.S. popular culture.

Free Download Anton Pelinka, Dov Ronen, "The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict, Democracy and Self-determination in Central Europe"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0714647527 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.8 mb
This volume provides an overall assessment of ethnic diversity in Central Europe in historical context and presents a critical assessment of the conflict in former Yugoslavia. It advances a hypothesis on the origins of ethnic conflict, proposes an approach to the prevention and reduction of ethnic conflict in general and in Central Europe in particular, and forwards concrete policy recommendations for the region of East and Central Europe and beyond.

Free Download Omar Khalidi, "Khaki And The Ethnic Violence In India: Army, Police, And Paramilitary Forces During Communal Riots"
English | 2003 | pages: 141 | ISBN: 8188789097, 8188789747 | PDF | 17,1 mb
India’s military, paramilitary, and the police constitute one of the largest security forces around the globe. Who constitutes these forces? What is the ethnic and religious background of these troops? Does the composition of these forces mirror the diversity of the Indian society? Have their composition undergone any change since Independence? This book provides answers with precision and economy of words.

Free Download Rafael Vargas, "Body Image: Social Influences, Ethnic Differences and Impact on Self-esteem "
English | ISBN: 163483870X | 2015 | 146 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The relationship between self-esteem and body image has been well-established such that low levels of self-esteem have been found to be associated with body image concerns. The authors review previous research on the link between low self-esteem and body image concerns and then discuss more recent research concerning the importance of contingent self-esteem in this connection. The next chapter provides a discussion on the commonness of body dissatisfaction among contemporary Western young women and suggests re-embodiment as a means of transforming this experience. Chapter 3 explores the relationship between appearance satisfaction emotional overeating, experiences of racism and BMI among Black and African American women. Ethnic identity plays an important role in the self-concept related to feelings and attitudes. Chapter 4 explores the ethnic differences in self-esteem and body image among adolescents, as well as the need to address ethnicity in prevention programs. The remaining chapters of the book focus on body image in adolescent pregnancy; magazine image influence, extraversion and body image in college males; sociocultural factors, body image factors and self-esteem on school-age males and females, the perception of self-image in older people and how it changes throughout life; an examination of how the way woman perceive themselves influences the psychosexual impact on quality of life; and finally, how people can improve or develop a healthier investment in appearance.

Free Download Michael Mann, "The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing"
English | 2004 | pages: 590 | ISBN: 052183130X, 0521538548 | PDF | 2,9 mb
This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Michael Mann offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future. Michael Mann is the author of Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) and The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge 1986).