Ethnic studies

Warum fürchten wir das Fremde so sehr?

¿Por qué la acción ritual y el chamanismo son tan importantes para los pueblos amerindios?

Entre el primer Zuamgenolu y el presente "ha corrido abundante agua".

"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.

According to acclaimed writer Isak Dinesen, the cure for anything is salt water, and most coastal Mainers would likely agree.

1977 und 1980 erscheint ein Katalog mit Kunstkunstobjekten aus dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten.

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.

All the things I left unsaid.

A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace?

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?

The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nchinchimam is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources.

What does it mean to belong?

This wonderful book gives the reader a glimpse into the cultural soul of the Alaska Native people, revealing how culture is very much alive and traditions are thriving.

If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population.

There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan and Korea.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality.

A Middle East scholar shares an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.

From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West.

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

Let's go to Zambia, and learn from what their history would tell us.

A wry memoir of innocence, perplexity, and growing up as a white girl in a (very slowly) changing South.

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race.

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas.

In The Art of God, pastor and musician Jimi Calhoun suggests that the master artist, God, programmed diversity into every aspect of the natural order.

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.

What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white?

Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.

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.

What is black culture?

The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco.

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.

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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.

How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "e;openly gay"e; so widely used but "e;openly straight"e; is not?

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

Born in 1871 on Maines Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseballs first American Indian player.

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism.

Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.

In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Comanches in tales nearly too tall to be true.