Skutsch Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-19388-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1520 Seiten

This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner.

For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skutsch, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abkhazians; aborigines; Acehnese; Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian); Adams, Gerry (Northern Ireland Catholic); Adja; Afar; affirmative action; Afghanistan; Africa: a continent of minorities?; African-Americans; Africans: 3: Europe; Afrikaners; Afro-Brazilians; Afro-Caribbeans; Afro-Cubans; Afro-Latin Americans; afrocentricity; Aga Khan (Ismaeli); Ahmadiyas; Ainu; Alawis; Albania; Albanians; Alevis; Algeria; Ali, Muhammad (African-American); Alsatians; Altai; Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji (Dalit); American Indian Movement (AIM); Americo-Liberians; Amerindians 1: Overview; Amerindians 2: North America; Amerindians 3: South and Central America; Amish; Andhras; Andorra; Angola; Annobonés; anti-semitism; Antigua and Barbuda; Anuak; apartheid; Arab-Americans; Arabs; Arabs: Jordanian; Arabs: North Africa; Arabs: Palestinians; Arafat, Yasser (Palestinain); Arakanese; Argentina; Armenia; Armenians; Arvanites; Asian-Americans; Asian-Australians; Asians in Latin America; Assam Movement; Assamese; Assimilation: forced and voluntary; Assyrians; Australia; Asutria; autonomy; Avars; Ayta (Balugas); Azerbaijan; Bahai; Bahamas; Bai; Bakhtyari; Baluchis; Bangladesh; Bantu; Barbados; Bariba; Bashkir; Basques; Batak; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Belorussians; Ben Jelloun, Tahar (Algerian); Benin; Berbers; Berta; Bhindranwale, Jarnail Sant (India-Sikh); Bhojpuris; Bihari; Bilingualism; Bonner, Neville Thomas (Aborigine); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bougainvilleans; Brazil; Bretons; Brunei; Bubi; Buddhists; Bulgaria; Burakumin; Buriats; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; caste and minority status; Catalans; Catholics in Northern Ireland; Césaire, Aimé (Martiniquais); Cham; Chavez, Cesar (Mexican-American); Chechens; Chile; Chin; China; Chinese in Asia; Chinese in Australia; Chinese in the Americas; Chittagong Hill Tribes; Christains 1: Overview; Chuvash; Cicassians; civil rights; civil rights movements; Colombia; colonialism; Comoros; Congo; Congo Republic; Coptic Christians; Corsicans; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; critical race theory; Croatia; Croats; Cuba; culture: minority influences on the majority; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Da Silva, Benedita (Afro-Brazilian); Dagestanis; Dalai Lama (Tibetan); Damara; Dayaks; De Klerk, F.W. (Afrikaner); Denmark; diaspora; Diaspora: African; Diaspora: Chinese; Diaspora: Indian; Diaspora: Jewish; Diola; Dogris; Dominican Republic; Dong; Druze; Du Bois, W.E.B. (African-American); Dukhobors; East Timor; eductaion rights; Egypt; English; equal opportunity; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; ethnic conflict; ethnicity; ethno-nationalism; ethno-psychology; Euronesians; European colonial minorities; Europeans 1: Overview; Europeans 2: Africa; Europeans 3: Asia; Europeans 5: Latin America; Ewe; exchange of population; Falasha (Ethiopian Jews); Fanon, Frantz Omar (Algerian); Farrakhan, Louis (African-American); federalism; Fiji; Filipinos; Finland; Finns; France; French; Frisians; Friulians; Fulani; Gabon; Gagauz (Christianized Turks); Gambia, The; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (India); Garang, John (Sudanese); Garifuna; Garvey, Marcus (Jamaican); gender and minority status; genocide; Georgia; Germans; Germany; Ghana; Gheorghe, Nicolae (Roma Romania); globalization and minority cultures; Grant, Bernie (UK Afro-Caribbean); Greece; Greeks; Grenada; Guillen, Nicholas (Cuban); Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Gujaratis; Gurage; Gurma; Guyana; Hall, Stuart (UK Afro-Caribbean); Hamer, Fannie Lou (African-American); Hani; Harari (Andare); Hausa; Hawaiians; Herero; Hindus; Hmong; Hong Kong Chinese; Hooks, Bell (African-American); Horta, José Ramos (East Timor); human and minority rights organizations; human rights; Hume, John (Northern Ireland Catholic); Hungarians; Hungary; Iceland; Igorot; immigrant workers in Arab states; imperialism; India; indigenous peoples; Indonesia; Indonesians; Ingush; integration; international conventions; internet and minorities; Iran; Iranians; Ireland; irish Republican Army; Ismailis; Israel; Italians; Jackson, Jesse (African-American); Jains; Jamaica; James, C.L.R. (Trinidadian); Japanese-Americans; Jews; Jews (Mizrachim/Sephardic); Jinnah, Muhammad Ali (Pakistani); Jordan; Jordan, Barbara (African-American); Kabards; Kachin (Jingpo); Kadazan-Dasun; Kalmyk; Kannadigas; Karachai; Karachay; Karakalpaks; Katari, Tupac (Aymaran); Kayapo; Kazakhstan; Kazaks; Kenya; Khakass; Khmer; King, Martin Luther Jr. (African-American); Komi; Koreans; Krygyzstan; Kyrgyz; Kurds; land rights; language rights; languages, disappearing; Lao-Tai; Lao-Theung; Laos; Latin Americans; Latvia; Le Pen, Jean Marie (French); Lesotho; Levesque, Rene; Liberia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Lithuanians;Lurs; Luthuli, Edward (Torres Strait Islander, Australia); Macedonia; Macedonians; Madagascar; Maharashtrains; Malawi; Malays; Malaysia; Malcolm X (African-American); Manchu; Mande; Mandela, Nelson (South African); Marcos, Subcomandante (Amerindian); Marley, Bob (Jamaican); Mauritania; Mauritius; Mazandarani; Melanesians; melting pot versus ethnic stew; Menchú, Rigoberta (Amerindian); Mexico; Miao (Hmong); migrations; minorities and language; minorities which dominate the majority; Minority Rights Group International; minority status and the state; miscegenation; Mohajirs; Mohammad, Elijah (African-American); Moldova; Monegasque; Mongolia; Mongols; Montagnards; Montenegrins; Mordovans; Moro National Liberation Front; Morocco; Morrison, Toni (African-American); Mossi; Mozambique; Mulattos (South Africa Coloureds); multiculturalism; multiethnic state; Muslims in Africa; Muslims in East and Pacific Asia; Muslims in Europe; Muslims in South Asia; Myanmar; Nama; Namibia; Nasser, Gamal Abdel (Egyptian); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; nationalism; Nauru; Ndebele; Negritos; Nepal; Nepalese; New Zealand; Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenyan); Niger; Nigeria; North Korea; Northern Ireland; Norway; Ocalan, Abdullah (Kurd); Occitans; Okinawans; Oman; Orang Asli; OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities; Ossetians; Ovambo; Pakistan; Palestinian Liberation Organization; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Parnell, Charles Stewart (Irish); Parsis; Pathans; Peru; Philippines; pluralism; Poland; Poles; police bias; political participation; Pomaks; Pope Shenouda III (Coptic Christian); population shifts; Portugal; Qashqa'i (Kashgai); Quebecois; Quechua; race; racism; racist political parties and movements; Rajasthanis; Ram, Jagivan (Harijan); Rastafari; religion vs. ethnicity; religious nationalism; religious separatists; reserved seats; Roma (Gypsies); Romania; Romansch; Rugova, Ibrahim (Albanian); Russia; Russians; Rwanda; Sami; San; Sao Tomé and Principe; secession; segregation; Selassie, Hailie (Ethiopian); self-determination; Senegal; Senghor, Leopold (Senegalese); separate electorates; Serbs; Shan; Shor; Siberian Indigenous Peoples; Sidama; Sierra Leone; Sikhs; Sindhis; Singapore; Singh, Tara (Sikh); Sinn Fein; slavery; Slovakia; Slovaks; Slovenia; Somalia; Songhai-Zerma; Soninke; Sorbs; South Africa; South Asian- Americans; South Asians in Asia and the Pacific; South Asians in Europe; South Asians in the Americas; South Korea; Southeast Asian-Americans; Spain; Sri Lanka; stereotypes; Subcommission: Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Sweden; Swedish speakers; Switzerland; Syria; Tai (Dai); Taiwan; Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples; Tajikistan; Tajiks; Tanzania; Tatars; Thailand; Tharu; Tigre; Tiruchelvam, Neelan (Tamil Sri Lankan); Tofa; Togo; Tonga; Torres Strait Islanders; Travellers (Irish nomads); Trimble, David (Northern Ireland); Trinidad and Tobago; Tuareg; Turkey; Turkmen; Turkmenistan; Turks; Tutsi; Tutu, Desmond (South Africa); Tuvalu; Tuvans; Twa; Tyrolese German speakers; Udmurts; Uganda; Ukraine; Ukrainians; Ulster Irish; United Kingdom; United Nations and minorities; United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Minorities; United Nations Declaration on Minorities; Untouchables; Uruguay; Uygurs; Uzbekistan; Uzbeks; Vanuatu; Vietnam; Vietnamese; Vlachs; Washington, Booker T. (African-American); Welsh; White Australia Policy (1901-1973); Wolof; Wright, Richard (African-American); Yakuts; Yanomami; Yao; Yazidis; Yemen; Yi; Yoruba; Yugoslavia; Zambia; Zana, Leila )Kurd); Zhuang; Zimbabwe; Zoroastrians

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Skutsch is an adjunct professor of humanities, School of the Visual Arts, New York City.