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Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world.Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu.Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.

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The authors present overviews of their fields of specialization and in depth analyses of their research data. The discussions stress the interrelationships among differing social, economic, ecological, and biological aspects of African pastoralism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.

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In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban. Through long-term historical and ethnographic research, Chari portrays South Africa’s twentieth century as a palimpsest that conserves the remains of multiple pasts, including attempts by the racial state to remake territory and personhood while instead deepening spatial contradictions and struggles. When South Durban’s denizens collectively mobilized in various ways---through Black Consciousness politics and other attempts at refusing the ruinous articulation of biopolitics, sovereignty, and capital---submerged traditions of the Indian Ocean and the Black Atlantic offered them powerful resources. Of these, Chari reads Black documentary photography as particularly insightful audiovisual blues critique. At the tense interface of Marxism, feminism, and Black study, he offers a method and form of geography attentive to the spatial and embodied remains of history. Apartheid Remains looks out from South Durban to imaginations of abolition of all forms of racial capitalism and environmental suffering that define our planetary predicament.

Apartheid --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.

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Bundesweit finden an zahlreichen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen Projekte statt, die sich inhaltlich mit den Niederlanden bzw. Belgien beschäftigen. Diese Publikation präsentiert eine Übersicht der gegenwärtigen Forschungslage auf dem Gebiet der Niederlande- und Belgienforschung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Darüber hinaus bietet sie eine umfassende, nach Disziplinen geordnete Aufstellung aktueller wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten zu den beiden Nachbarländern. Die Datensammlung basiert auf einer Inventarisierung, die das Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster im Rahmen des Projektes Forschungsdatenbank Niederlande-Belgien im Zeitraum von Oktober 2001 bis Dezember 2002 durchgeführt hat.

Social Science / Ethnic Studies / European Studies --- Social sciences

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In this thought-provoking analysis, George Yancey reevaluates the controversial "contact hypothesis" as he explores if and when interracial contact can combat the racial animosity and inequality permeating US society. Yancey draws on quantitative and qualitative investigations of interracial religious congregations, families, and friendships to demonstrate that extensive interactions with people of color can alter the racial attitudes of whites. In the process, he challenges the assumption that contact necessarily results in people of color assimilating white values and culture: it may strengthen their socioeconomic positions, but it does not subvert their racial identity. Contact, Yancey concludes, is not a panacea for society's racial ills—but it is a vital supplement to the structural changes that must occur.

United States --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- Race question --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.