Ethnic studies

This is a powerful, first-hand account of a religious ministry that reaches out to console, heal, and build the lives of poor and desperate immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life.

In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "e;Great War.

The United Nations has increased its worldwide efforts to promote sustainable development.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

In India about 123,000 people take their own lives each year, the second highest total in the world.

"e;Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis.

Petro (Peter) Jacyk survived two of the most horrendous events of the 20th century: the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, instigated by Stalin and responsible for the deaths of untold millions, and waves of invasion and slaughter from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.

This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women's lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines' representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience.

The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades.

This book provides a systematic examination of the re-patterning of collective identities through violence and the role of power politics in such critical transitions.

This book explores how multiculturalism should be promoted throughout higher education due to its benefits for students.

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.

In the early twenty-first century, race still occupies a dominant role in American politics.

Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics.

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.

The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) - CPN(M).

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education.

Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic Black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean and the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the Sable-Saffron Venus as an 'alter/native- body'.

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders.

From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters.

This book is an in-depth study which examines the lives of fifty ambitious Latino/a high school seniors in the San Francisco East Bay Area, following their entrance into college and career pathways over several years.

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.

Her Secret Billionaire by Yahrah St.

This edited collection by leading Australian Aboriginal scholars uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) to explore how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are growing up in contemporary Australia.

This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life.

Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy.

Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.

This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change.

How Latino Catholics and America are transforming each otherMost histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates.

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future.

A groundbreaking history of racismRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century.

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter.

In the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J.

Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women.

Examines his contribution as a philosopher and theologian to issues of racial and social justice and his drive to eradicate oppression through the doctrine of nonviolence.

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement.

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.

Study of ethnic groups and race relations have always existed in the academy, primarily in the areas of sociology and anthropology.

Shamans Dream : the Modoc War is a literary non-fiction account of the 1873 standoff between besieged Modoc Indians and the United States Army on the California/Oregon border.

Black History Month is a year-round affair!

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics.

By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "e;underdeveloped"e; status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States' religious landscape.