(Part 3) Best ethnic demographic studies according to redditors
We found 246 Reddit comments discussing the best ethnic demographic studies. We ranked the 75 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
a terrible image by all accounts. I recommend you read up on actual arab and arab american feminisms. This book was taught last semester to me and it would help images like this never reach this site. https://www.amazon.com/Arab-American-Feminisms-Violence-Belonging/dp/0815633866
> How is he so popular?
He represents one of the old guard WN 1.0 that kept the flame of white nationalism burning. In my personal opinion the alt right wouldn't be here without these folks and we owe them a debt of respect and gratitude regardless of their general failure to impact the mainstream. He's also a veteran troll of leftist PC culture. Names the jew. Wrote a recent book about anti white culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Whiteness-Original-Sin-Jim-Goad/dp/1729700411
This is a good interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lClAzbXsnBQ
Also he wrote a book that attempted to highlight effects of opioids and the forgotten white victims of Reagan and Clinton era policies to move jobs overseas.
https://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Jim-Goad/dp/0684831139/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jim+goad+hillbilly&qid=1551030872&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull
Usually with enthnographies, the academic either lives among the communities and makes observations or keeps asking questions until someone talks to them. It helps them tremendously to make friends and gain people's trust.
That board also brings into question if the island was real, which this Wikipedia article clears up. The island's true name was Inisheer, stylized as "Inis Beag" for the resident's privacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inis_Beag
I haven't read the actual ethnography essay, which is 34 pages long and don't know who he cites for his info, but it does come with 2 pages of references. It would be pretty rare to publish an ethnography without any evidence whatsoever. Considering the number of sexual health and sexology books that reference it, I have to assume there must be some merit. I would be very interested to read it, but it's hard to find a digital copy without paying.
http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/citation.do?method=citation&forward=browseAuthorsFullContext&id=er06-017
He also did a longer study of the island that was 136 pages.
https://www.amazon.com/Inis-Beag-John-C-Messenger/dp/0881330515/ref=pd_sim_14_1/145-2609404-5587267?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0881330515&pd_rd_r=1CZWPNFV2T0ARQF8N47G&pd_rd_w=okO2G&pd_rd_wg=zmLDd&psc=1&refRID=1CZWPNFV2T0ARQF8N47G
All it takes is 5-10 people of different statuses/ages to accurately describe the cultural practices of a homogeneous 300. It's essentially a large tribe.
Also, this was in the 1950s/60s before the island had electricity or running water. No idea what it's like now, it'd be great to have an AMA from someone who lives there currently.
I believe it.
I've noticed several people ITT wondering at why an African woman would make a film that seemingly offers no advantage to her (or even puts her and other African women at a disadvantage) dating-wise.
It's also possible this documentary may not have been made with the intention of promoting black men with asian women, but it happened anyway because quite a few of these men do end up with locals.
But this phenomenon being described - women of other groups recommending non-asian men to find asian women, definitely happens too.
If you look on Lily Petals World's videos (A Korean youtuber now married to an African man from Kenya), especially the ones about why she loves black men, you'll see even a few black american women in the comments encouraging her and saying how cute it is.
Maybe such women just have a very low mateguarding instinct; either they are simply used to seeing men dating out (I hear this is a common experience for African-American women) and accept it, or don't see it as a threat to themselves, like if they were also desired due to a racial fetish (As could be the case with the filmmaker).
A lot of people (not referring to you guys ofc) tend to assume that Africa is home to a monolithic entity of black people. Even some black americans think this way (usually afrocentrists) but this is most assuredly not the case. There is division and even tension amongst Africa's various nations, racial and ethnic groups.
The creator of this film is an East African Somali. Apparently East African women fetishise West African men (Particularly Nigerians) and vice versa. Who knows, she could even be seeing a West African man in China. This may be of help explaining why she made such a documentary.
Nigerian forum discussing dating Somalis. The general consensus seems to be that Somali men with Nigerian women is not as common for cultural reasons, yet the opposite happens frequently in places where the two populations intermingle (e.g. The US). One poster remarks that Somalis and other Horn Africans are like the "Asians of Africa" (because apparently their penises are tiny):
http://www.nairaland.com/1247834/nigerian-women-marry-somali
(From a Somali forum) "Lately Somali girls marry Black guys, but are not happy":
https://www.somalinet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=202415
Article about the growing trend of Nigerians dating East African women:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130427045735/http://vibeweekly.com/features/1030-that-nigerian-man-will-never-marry-you-a-warning-to-east-african-women.html
This also happens with women from neighbouring Ethiopia. Usually it's Ethiopian women who are praised for their lighter features:
http://www.nairaland.com/2429410/ethiopian-women-nigerian-men-pics
http://www.nairaland.com/1584523/nigerian-women-vs-ethiopian-women
A Nigerian man wrote this book which oddly focuses on demonising black american women while reocmmending black american men to date out:
https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Wars-Examination-Destroyer-Community/dp/1517655153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474643458&sr=8-1&keywords=Negro+Wars
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Some Somalis also have creation myths about Arab men coming to Somalia from the Gulf and starting local clans by intermarrying with Somali women.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habr_Awal
>Sheikh Isaaq Bin Ahmed was one of the Arabian scholars that crossed the sea from Arabia to the Horn of Africa to spread Islam around 12th to 13th century. He is said to have been descended from Prophet Mohammed's daughter Fatimah. Hence the Sheikh belonged to the Ashraf or Sada, titles given to the descendants of the prophet. He married two local women in Somalia that left him eight sons, one of them being Abdirahman (Awal). The descendants of those eight sons are the what is known as Isaaq clan today.
Ah, sorry to misunderstand that aspect of your question.
To me personally (opinion here), having more cultures to study helps devise theories that apply to all, much like biologist studying 100 trees and comparing them. The mechanisms with which cultures are formed are universal: a culture is a manifestation of those mechanisms. Cultures, subcultures, and language are always in flux: they develop, they evolve, they merge, they splinter, they intersect, they change. It's part of being human, and I would say this is something that is impossible to stop.
Here are some resources:
An overview of anthropology theories: http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_10_1_August_2014/19.pdf
Cross culture research journal : http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ccr
Atlas of world cultures (murdock): https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-World-Cultures-George-Murdock/dp/0822984857/ref=sr_1_1
Cultural Anthropology Through Film: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Anthropology-Cultural-Through-Ethnographic/dp/0205512666/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
List of anthropology films to watch: https://www.uregina.ca/arts/anthropology/film-list.html
Also search on subcultures as well as reference groups as it relates to sociological theory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_group
Another point of interest would be the various alternatives to the GDP: https://theconversation.com/beyond-gdp-are-there-better-ways-to-measure-well-being-33414.
Research methods: https://revisesociology.com/2016/01/03/research-methods-sociology/
http://www.amazon.com/Bengali-Harlem-Histories-South-America/dp/0674066669
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/28/the-bengali-villagers-who-migrated-to-america/
http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/15/bengali-harlem-author-documents-a-lost-history-of-immigration-in-america/
One of the best books I read was about the Indians who went on a ship 100 years ago and settled in Central California. Below are some links about it:
Here are some neat links regarding the diaspora:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YhiO3QcP0A
http://www.sikhpioneers.org/cpma.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Mexican_American
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/punjabi-sikh-mexican-american-community-fading-into-history/2012/08/13/cc6b7b98-e26b-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_story.html
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Ethnic-Choices-Californias-Americans/dp/1566392020
You're a clever guy. Being of mixed race can be very confusing in the US because race itself is such a complex subject. This book helped me a bit, but there's a lot of stuff to disagree with in it: http://www.amazon.com/American-Mixed-Race-Culture-Microdiversity/dp/0847680134
I especially disliked the last article, but I felt some of the earlier articles were very useful in deconstructing race as a whole.
When it comes to race/ethnicity, it's kinda a personal thing, but it's also a how strangers react thing. white people tend to treat is as an heirloom thing.
note: I am not a black lady, so my opinion is not the one you're looking for. I'm just here because this is the best forum on reddit. everyone is really super nice and really insightful and it's really the only truly safe space I've found on reddit.
I know this is a "change my view" thread but... I was trying to read what others would say and I'm just seeing a lot of strong and hateful opinions based on skewed data and misinformation... I honestly think you're right and that so much of discrimination by race/class/gender is utter white supremacy, since the beginning of the US (assuming that you're talking about the United States). I've been reading this book called "Race, Class, and Gender in the United States" (https://www.amazon.com/Race-Class-Gender-United-States/dp/1429242175) and it helps explain a lot of how language and other things have been shaped to help keep certain people in power. You might find it's an interesting read of that's your thing.
Hoping for more understanding to come your way and less bullshit.
The Holy Odu: A Collection of verses from the 256 Ifa Odu with Commentary https://www.amazon.com/dp/1508633045/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_z0QTBbE0W1QXY
What, these?
Or, if you prefer American amazon.com, try this.
War in the Tribal Zone. Excellent book.
The best book on the subject is R. Halliburton Jr.'s Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokee Indians. It's well-researched and very even-handed, and including many primary sources.
The WPA Slave Narratives are absolutely fascinating. The Oklahoma Volume has numerous accounts of Native-Black interactions.
East Coast tribes have much more interactions with African-Americans than other tribes, but it's interesting that Pueblo peoples had contact with an African before they ever encountered a European. His name was Esteban and he was killed in 1539.
The first Native American artist to achieve success in the international art world was Edmonia Lewis, Ojibwe-Haitian-African, who maintained a studio in Rome, Italy in the 1870s.
Who do you think is writing all these books, man?
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Yakub-Father-Caucasian-People/dp/1484169530/
https://www.amazon.com/Yakub-Father-Research-History-Modern/dp/1717251978/
https://www.amazon.com/Yakub-Jacob-Mankind-Elijah-Muhammad/dp/1884855792
The last one is written by Elijah Muhammad himself.
Oops. Meant Brandeis and Yeshiva University as major Jew schools. Not tufts.
In the early 1900s the biggest competitors was CCNY that had lots of Jewish enrollment.
edit - so I am still researching, it seems that not much was written about how the Jewish Quotas were dropped.
best i could find was this book: The Half Opened Door - Discrimination at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
I think if we look at the history, we can find out how did Harvard lose the Jewish quotas? most articles on web do not explain it - this requires more research/ conjecture.
>By the 1960's, a new elite was displacing the Protestant Establishment across American society. And the elite university presidents behaved like "intellectual investment bankers," in the words of Geoffrey Kabaservice, the author of "The Guardians," a book about Yale. They realized, as Karabel writes, that they would profit in the long run if they dumped "stocks that showed signs of slipping" - the old Protestant bluebloods - and invested "in an array of newer stocks that, while perhaps riskier, promised higher rates of return": the rising meritocrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/67613/the-end-elite
it seems that the end of jewish quotas came with the rise of the liberal establishment, but from our own experiences, I find that liberals were the most racist towards asians.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Chosen-Admission-Exclusion-Princeton/dp/061877355X?tag=bisafetynet2-20
>Many of Karabel’s findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasn’t an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting “the second sex”; Harvard had a systematic quota on “intellectuals” until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century.
^ I would read Karabel's book - it follows my own hunch that it is all a power play by the institution. If we believe that institutions exist to perpetuate themselves and to keep the existing power structure, I would surmise that only existential threats would be able to spur the necessary changes. That is why I strongly believe that as China gets stronger, Harvard will open more doors to asians, otherwise they will lose out to other rival institutions, We can see this happening slowly as Harvard and other schools open China campus in order to stay competitive.
https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-the-ivy-league/2019/03/22/13fdb0da-4bf0-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html
It is because Harvard does not see Asian Americans as leadership material - thus the low admit percentage. The only way to be seen as leaders is to give it time and see if the limited number of 20% asians end up becoming leaders in industry. if not, they do not want to sacrifice their class size to create followers. So the previous graduates of these Ivy League schools must fight to positions of prominence before Harvard would be willing to increase the admit numbers. Thus why the cap continues
Missed this one. I'm curious now, but his right and decision not to keep it up. Guessing he judged it as having a bit too much Id once he cooled off.
He seems to really want this adversarial collaboration with Robinson, but why not in the interest of charity also check out some more disparate thinkers, especially on racial questions he's engaging with anyway?
I know he's recently reviewed Chomsky and Foucault, but maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to read some non-white male leftist theorists like Robinson recommends. I hate to go totally racial-gender-identity-quota, but the only nonfiction book written by a woman I remember him reviewing was Elizabeth Warren's almost four years ago. He wrote this about getting older late last year:
>3. Less trust in any specific system, more resignation to the idea that anything useful requires a grab bag of intuitions, heuristics, and almost-unteachable skills.
>4. More willingness to assume that other people are competent in aggregate in certain ways, eg that academic fields aren’t making incredibly stupid mistakes or pointlessly circlejerking in ways I can easily detect.
> 5. More willingness to believe that power (as in “power structures” or “speak truth to power”) matters and infects everything.
And to me that suggests he might be more amenable than he used to be to reading and reviewing something like Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race?
Edit: he reviewed Hannah Arendt, too.
For some multicultural/multiracial perspective on the feminist movement, check out Colonize This!
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Racism-Well-meaning-People-Perpetuate/dp/1594512132
Looks interesting, and provocative. I have never read it.
The word "race" doesn't start appearing in European sources until The Age of Exploration. Before that time, peoples were generally divided in tribal groupings and didn't pay much attention to skin color.
Even after "race was invented" there was massive interbreeding between colonists and natives anyways, so it's not like a truly "pure" race exists anyways.
Source: This book http://www.amazon.com/Race-North-America-Evolution-Worldview/dp/0813343577 (It's good!)
Edit: I should not that the really hardcore racial-taxonomic work happened even later than 1500.
Truth.