Ethnic studies

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city.

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks.

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles.

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "e;Other"e; figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself.

During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation.

For many, Canadian multiculturalism represents the hope that we can build a society in which people who have come from all corners of the world can fully participate without first subverting or erasing their unique identities.

In 1959, Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel wrote and performed "e;Ne me quitte pas"e; (Don't leave me), a visceral and haunting plea for his lover to come back.

Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism.

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies.

This teaching guide for qualitative research offers a methodological approach to qualitative studies with ethnographic and phenomenological approaches.

A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities.

Who Votes Now?

The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis.

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.

It was a project like no other.

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.

This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.

This book reconceives the internationalization of higher education from the perspective of Global South researchers, empowering and giving visibility to this discourse.

Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes.

In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work.

Black Greek 101 analyzes the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations.

Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices.

China's rise is having a large impact on the global science system.

This book analyzes how sportswriters have discussed issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age and class within professional baseball from 1998 to the present.

At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America.

The compelling, little-known story of golfer Charlie Sifford and attorney Stanley Mosk who together made history by taking on the PGA and their Caucasians Only by-law.

This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in part through its reunification with Hong Kong.

This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.

Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico.

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "e;decolonise"e; legal education across the world.

Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion.

The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa.

This book enables Western scholars and educators to recognize the roles and contributions of shadow education/hakwon education in an international context.

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;7 FOOTSTEPS OF FEAR"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.

Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform.

From the Wild West shows of the nineteenth century to the popular movie Westerns of the twentieth century, one view of an idealized and mythical West has been promulgated.

Man's Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people's character and intelligence.

In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage-the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery-as a guide to police abolition.

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames'Fat Hamreinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.

First published in 1942,A Sun ChiefA is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C.

An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia-and what it means for today's divided world Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia.

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty.

Named one of the New York Times Best Wine Books of 2023Named one of the Washington Post's Best Wine Books of 2023In the late 1980s, while working for his family's real estate and parking business in Washington, DC, Alex received a life-changing case of wine as a gift that uncorked a new opportunity.