1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789906803321

Autore

Roth Wendy D

Titolo

Race migrations [[electronic resource] ] : Latinos and the cultural transformation of race / / Wendy D. Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8253-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

305.868/073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Race identity

Hispanic Americans - Social conditions

Dominican Americans - Race identity

Puerto Ricans - Race identity - United States

Race - Social aspects - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Puerto Rico Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. How Immigration Changes Concepts of Race; 2. Beyond the Continuum: Race in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico; 3. Migrant Schemas: Race in the United States; 4. Transnational Diffusion; 5. Multiple Forms of Racial Stratification; 6. Performing Race Strategically; 7. Is Latino Becoming a Race? : Cultural Change and Classifications; Appendix: Notes on Methodology; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race-for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an American idea about race does not mean abandoning earlier ideas. New racial schemas transfer across borders and cultures spread between sending and host countries.Behind many current debates o



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822894403321

Autore

Clark S. D (Samuel Delbert), <1910-2003>

Titolo

The developing Canadian community / / S. D. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1971

©1962

ISBN

1-4426-5477-5

1-4426-5286-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Canadian University Paperbooks

Disciplina

309.171

Soggetti

Social conditions

Electronic books.

Canada Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Frontier in the Social Development of Canada -- Chapter I. Social Organization and the Changing Structure of the Community -- Chapter II. The Farmmg-Fur-Trade Society of New France -- Chapter III. The Rural Village Society of the Maritimes -- Chapter IV. The Backwoods Society of Upper Canada -- Chapter V. The Gold-Rush Society of British Columbia and the Yukon -- Chapter VI. The Prairie Wheat-Farming Frontier and the New Industrial City -- Part II. Religious Organization in the Development of the Canadian Community -- Chapter VII. Religious Organization and the Rise of the Canadian Nation, 1850-85 -- Chapter VIII. The Religious Sect in Canadian Politics -- Chapter IX. The Religious Sect in Canadian Economic Development -- Chapter X. The Religious Influence in Canadian Society -- Part III. Formative Influences in the Development of the Canadian Society -- Chapter XI. The Canadian Community and the American Continental System -- Chapter XII. Education and Social Change in Canada -- Chapter XIII. The Frontier in the Development of the Canadian Political Community -- Chapter XIV. Canada and Her Great Neighbour -- Chapter XV. Canada and the American Value System -- Chapter XVI. The Limitations of Capitalist Enterprise in



Canadian Society -- Chapter XVII. Higher Education and the New Men of Power in Society -- Part IV. Sociology and History -- Chapter XVIII. Sociology, History, and the Problem of Social Change -- Chapter XIX. Sociology, History, and the Problem of Social Change -- Chapter XX. Social Change and the Community -- Chapter XXI. Comparative Sociological Analysis and the Problem of Social Change

Sommario/riassunto

Collection of papers and essays concerning the development of Canadian society. Includes a chapter on the gold rush society of British Columbia and the Yukon.