Ethnic studies

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism - literary and cinematic by Black writers.

With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way.

Military action in South Ossetia, growing tensions with the United States and NATO, and Russia's relationship with the European Union demonstrate how the issue of Russian nationalism is increasingly at the heart of the international political agenda.

In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing.

How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time?

A groundbreaking story of African agency and the abolition of slavery, providing a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade.

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades.

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union s most marginal and disenfranchised communities.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism?

On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane.

Nationalism and other forms of group identity underlie many of the destructive conflicts the world is experiencing today.

A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas.

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America.

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations.

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians.

A collection of fantastical and macabre Gullah-inspired folklore that illuminates African-American life in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States.

This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana.

This ambitious volume shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation.

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected.

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean.

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated.

After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer's Odysseus - told by forty Inuit elders.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

Composicion social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 1970 in Spanish, and translated into English here for the first time, discusses the changing structure of social classes and groups in Dominican society from the first encounter between Europeans and Natives until the mid-twentieth century.

Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.

Foreword by award-winning illustrator Smriti Prasadam-Halls.

Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book examines black and mixed-race men and women's experiences of policing in the UK.

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works.

The Democrat Party likes to pose as the party of compassion.

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.

The process of creating graphic design cannot be easily defined: each designer has their own way of seeing the world and approaching their work.

Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures?

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound.

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.

This book examines how the structure of electoral institutions may affect political corruption.

This second edition offers strategies, tips, and guidance on how to promote equitable student growth across content areas.

At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.

This edited volume presents intersectionality in its various configurations and interconnections across the African continent and around the world as a concept.