Ethnic studies

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish.

News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Essays on "e;how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed 'communities of nationality' .

For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled.

Ricky Delgado works as a chicken hanger at the poultry plant in Rugoso, Texas, a small border town just thirty miles south of Laredo.

Anyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute.

In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos.

Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other?

A study of the racial-ethnic history of the United States and the perpetuation of racial hierarchy.

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level.

The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history.

A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape.

When it comes to race in America, we must face one uncomfortable but undeniable fact.

The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World.

When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden.

Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944).

The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions.

Shaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers.

The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens.

From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range.

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support "e;colorblindness"e; and racial equality.

Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport.

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change?

This work is the first to examine the educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad, the patriarch of the Nation of Islam and a pivotal leader in America's history.

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This book examines the cultural beliefs and practices of Black folks in relation to psychological strength.

Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America.

Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created by the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

*; Provides a full explanation for each character of the Celtic tree alphabets and their historic variants, including each symbol's corresponding trees, colors, birds, cryptic codes, and esoteric inner meanings*; Explores the use of Celtic tree alphabets in spiritual invocation, divination, and symbolic art as well as the practice of Ogham cryptography*; Explains how, like Norse Runes, each Ogham character is a meditative symbol in its own right and offers the possibility of deep psychic transformationEmanating from the spiritual traditions of Celtic antiquity, Ogham is best known as a ';tree alphabet.

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In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.

"e;Helps to articulate those pressing strategic questions necessary in formulating-and executing-American strategy in this critical part of the world.

Racism has never been simple.

"e;A remarkable book .

China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power.

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality - political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial.

This book examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status.

* 2025 Locus Awards Winner, Non-Fiction* 2025 Ignyte Awards Shortlist, Outstanding Creative Nonfiction* 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, African American Non-Fiction* 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist* 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award (BSFA) Shortlist, Best Short Non-Fiction * 2024 BSFA Award Longlist, Best Long Non-Fiction* One of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024* One of Open Country Mag's 60 Notable African Books of 2024In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.

This edited volume reflects on the profound effort undertaken by artists to contest settler denial and amnesia to disclose Australia's foundations in racialised violence and land theft.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

Love letters to BreAnna--this is a book of how a mother communicates to her daughter who has autism through letters and stories.

This book constitutes a first-of-its-kind synthesis of the development of journalism in Brazil, considering both its mediations with national social and political life and its relationships of influence and dependence on international economic centers.

This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world.

Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children.

The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations.