Ethnic studies

For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.

Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States.

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict.

The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States.

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans.

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion.

Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans.

African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.

The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States.

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

The Problem of Passing traces the continued relevance of Black racial passing for contemporary Black life, Black studies, philosophy, and narratives of passing more generally.

Arab American Women, Identity, and Intersectionality extends postcolonial feminist theory to include intersectionally marginalized bodies in the classroom and in social science discourse.

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.

In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture.

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.

African American history from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of twentieth-century U.

For Professors: Free E-Exam Copies

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict.

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.

While Washington, D.

While Washington, D.

In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture.

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

Iraq's Divided Majority: Democratisation, Consociationalism, and In-Group Rivalry challenges conventional accounts of consociational democracy by examining how power-sharing arrangements can intensify political competition within, rather than between, groups.

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.

For much of the twentieth century, research on Black families was dominated by narratives of deficits and dysfunction.

On October 3, 1873, the U.

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power.

On October 3, 1873, the U.

Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century.

Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (18631923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (18631923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth centurys longest campaign for Black civil rights.

For much of the twentieth century, research on Black families was dominated by narratives of deficits and dysfunction.

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth centurys longest campaign for Black civil rights.

"e;The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western languagea standard work.

"e;The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western languagea standard work.

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

For at least two centuries, the Souths economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life.