Ethnic studies

Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills.

Thinking in English represents Dr.

This book brings together literature, empirical research findings from two projects, and policy analysis to examine how some forces in England have adopted the approach of treating crimes against sex workers as hate crimes.

Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community.

Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for their students.

This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trump's bid for the US Presidency.

Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling focuses on a range of social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color.

This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.

This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success.

The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.

This book traces the powerful discourses and embodied practices through which Black Caribbean women have been imagined and produced as subjects of British liberal rule and modern freedom.

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing their years of experience investigating the conditions and consequences of heterogeneity in the region.

This book, framed through the notion of double consciousness, brings postcolonial constructs to sociopolitical and pedagogical studies of youth that have yet to find serious traction in education.

The treatment of Muslims is the touchstone of contemporary European racism across its many nations and localities.

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting headlines of today.

This book outlines the principal motivations, opportunities and barriers to Muslim women's political participation in France and francophone Belgium.

Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the postWorld War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust.

Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes.

This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia.

Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in U.

This volume identifies some of the remaining gaps in extant theories of systemic racism, and in doing so, illuminates paths forward.

This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema.

Why has social peace been preserved in some new, nationalizing countries in Eastern Europe and broken down in others?

This book discusses the issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and immigrant status in U.

More than ever before, China is on the move.

Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations.

This book examines US President Barack Obama's characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women's movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia.

Many people associate racism with bigoted individuals and radical groups on the fringes of society.

A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one.

Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.

This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the relationship between traditionalism/modernism and cognitive styles and offers a method for multiculturalism assessment and psychotherapy that promotes the development of pluralistic perspectives and lifestyles.

This innovative book provides therapists with a practical guide for treating patients from other cultures.

A vivid history of life in Princeton, New Jersey, told through the voices of its African American residentsI Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns-Princeton, New Jersey.

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s.

The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive featureintroducing students to key concepts through a structural lenswhile featuring new material throughout.

In this book, Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco examines the politics of empowerment of Dominican Americans in the United States.

The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism.

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon?

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family.

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world.

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight.

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

A historical overview of the census race question-and a bold proposal for eliminating itAmerica is preoccupied with race statistics-perhaps more than any other nation.

This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White Establishment?

Is Confucianism a religion?

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians.

Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of films about ghetto life.