A manual for fixing our cultureIn writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.
La lucha de los movimientos sociales inspirados en el proyecto de una 'política de la identidad' no alcanzará la radicalidad del pluralismo que pretende afirmar a menos que los grupos insurgentes partan de una conciencia clara de la profundidad de su 'diferencia'.
Los doce relatos reunidos en esta antología logran dar a conocer el pasado de quienes habitaron en los territorios que hoy llamamos Chile entre mediados del siglo XVII y mediados del siglo XIX.
El presente libro ofrece una revisión crítica de teorías y etnografías hechas sobre el tema del suicidio en pueblos indígenas en algunos países del continente americano.
En la tradición de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores científicos más reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de cómo dejó las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante más de dos décadas su trabajo de campo con una tropa de traviesos babuinos en la sabana africana.
A unique tribute to often overlooked women who have left an indelible mark on Gospel Musicpowerful talents who overcame racism and sexism to define the genre, establish its sound, and set the standard for good sangin for generations.
Fords overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future.
Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work thatinvestigateshow pivotal decisions have established and perpetuated discriminatory practices, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.
Los muiscas del altiplano cundiboyacense y su participación en el entramado colonial (siglo XVI) analiza el papel activo de las comunidades indígenas de esa región en el contexto de la dominación colonial de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI y las distintas facetas en las que la sociedad indígena respondió al poder español.
"La prioridad de la democracia sobre la filosofía" implica una comunidad liberal que ofrece a sus ciudadanos todo el espacio posible para que desarrollen sus proyectos privados.
En el Rio de la Plata como en México la construcción del estado nación sobre la base de la ciudadanía y de la supresión del corporatismo, implicó para las poblaciones indígenas la pérdida de las tierras comunitarias, de los municipios y de los territorios autónomos.
La América Indígena decimonónica desde nueve miradas y perspectivas viene a sumarse a una historiografía latinoamericanista que busca encontrar en lo comparativo procesos que afectaron a aquellos países que cuentan con un alto porcentaje de población indígena en sus territorios.
The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds, and whyAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body?
Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same.
Sometime in August 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota.
The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving.
A guide to the latest research on how young people can develop positive ethnic-racial identities and strong interracial relationsToday's young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society.
A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time.
The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans.
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country's future Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country's future-the majority-minority narrative-which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States's history.
A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history.
One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America.
A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats-a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.
How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to todayAs right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat.
