Ethnic studies

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods.

You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts.

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society.

From Tamils to Malayalees, from Bengalis to Punjabis, the diverse Indian community in Singapore has played a large part in building the country.

Between 1965, when President Lyndon B.

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation.

This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century.

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British AtlanticFocusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status.

A captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry's life, art, and political activism--one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021"e;Hits the mark as a fresh and timely portrait of an influential playwright.

Spirit Life centers on the Spirit as an avenue for better understanding God and reconciling with our faith.

2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist * A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book * A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racismChild is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her-the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love.

A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America.

The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years.

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity.

With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "e;most humane"e; execution method is anything but.

A must-have collection of folktales for anyone interested in Korean literature and culture!

"e;A well-researched, succinct account of African American involvement in the crusade to contain the threat of atomic warfare .

Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance.

Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.

Asians make up the largest and most dispersed peoples of the world, and Christians make up a sizable proportion of this demographic.

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows.

Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home.

This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race.

This book highlights and suggests remedies for the racial and ethnic health disparities confronting people of color amid COVID-19 in the United States.

A study of recent shifts in the depictions of Asian cultural stereotypes The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present.

Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited because, until now, not a single Chinese classical medical text has been available in a serious philological translation.

Now more than ever there is a need to focus on Black men's health in higher education and ensure that future practitioners are trained to ethically and culturally serve this historically oppressed community.

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.

This book sheds light on the cultural traits and religious beliefs of the Yarsan community.

Increasing attention and representation of multiraciality in both the scholarly literature and popular culture warrants further nuancing of what is understood about multiracial people, particularly in the changing contexts of higher education.

This book details how bias affects the brain, perception and decision-making--and identifies how these factors affect the field of dance.

Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production.

Das Buch hinterfragt die vermeintliche visuelle Evidenz von Kategorien menschlicher Ähnlichkeit und Differenz.

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