Ethnic studies

The historical and literary antecedents of the President's campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins--remains controversial.

Part history, part biography, this study examines the Black athlete's search to unify what W.

Poet Alice Walker has described culture as something in which one should thrive; further, that healing means putting the heart, courage, and energy back into one's self within one's own culture.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes.

The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing.

Almost 200 years after public schools moved toward free education for all children, educators are still exploring the best approaches for promoting equitable student growth.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "e;more perfect union"e;--still raged long after the guns went silent.

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film.

With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected.

Isabel Allende--"e;la Famosa"e; to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author.

In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century.

This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from the last 20 years, including the addition of four films from Bolivia.

Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War.

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This narrative history describes the events preceding, and the prosecution of, the Texas Revolution and the U.

When the English first arrived at the Outer Banks in the summer of 1584, they were greeted by native Algonquian-speaking people who had long occupied present-day North Carolina.

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units.

The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand.

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Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K.

For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly.

Greatness is often overlooked in its own time.

What makes Japanese music sound Japanese?

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, "e;The world must be made safe for democracy.

During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals.

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "e;manhood"e; and the art of clowning.

Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.

Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to Melka Amp Jara, a woman of the highlands, and Patrick Leahy, brother of Australian explorers Michael and Daniel Leahy, who were among the first Australian explorers to encounter people in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, during an expedition in search for gold.

This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China.

Why does North Korea routinely turn to provocation to achieve foreign policy goals?

Since the earliest days of America, racist imagery has been used to create harmful stereotypes of the indigenous people.

Mormonism arose in early 19th century New York and has fired the imaginations of its devotees, critics, and students ever since.

Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included Protestant sacred music in their speeches and writings.

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Since the publication of earlier editions of this book, China's political and economic landscapes have changed dramatically, with the rise of new leadership, evolving alliances, tariff wars, educational policies and technological advancements.

Generations ago, immigrants came to the U.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the "e;big monsters stomping on cities"e; motif.

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 called for review and reinvestigation of "e;violations of criminal civil rights statutes that occurred not later than December 31, 1969, and resulted in a death.

Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century.

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This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America.

Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies.

Since the arrival of European settlers, Native American cultural sovereignty has been under attack.

George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War.

The all new essays in this book discuss black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales.