Ethnic studies

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "e;Okah Tubbee.

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life.

This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education.

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.

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.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

Learn more about the Native American Indians in this educational book for 6th graders.

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.

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY).

Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting.

Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries.

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.

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D.

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?

China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known.

One little two, little three American Indians!

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

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

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living.

"e;I walked across the highway and stood on the bank overlooking Lake Roosevelt.

Mending Fences illuminates the forces driving Moscows China policy, from the Ussuri River clashes in 1969 to the "e;strategic partnership"e; of the 1990s.

Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative.

In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement.

The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination describes and analyzes the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special attention to its prevalence in Kenya, where more than seven hundred abortions are performed daily on girls between fifteen and seventeen years of age.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "e;the black Mecca.

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "e;honor"e; and "e;virtue.

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history.

How is the state produced?

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865.

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

A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

"e;This incisive work"e; examining Obama's speeches and the theories of W.

Lucid and lyricala vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization.

Volume 36 of Research in Personnel and HumanResources Management contains seven chapters written by scholarly leaders inthe field.

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque,"e; this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims.

This guide looks beyond the exotic images tracing the story of different indigenous people from their first contact with explorers and colonizers to the present day.

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.

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.

As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

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This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans.

The book shows the most effective way of balancing the fundamental pillars, assisting the modern day manager by handling a dynamic, constantly adjusting workplace, which easily adapts to all challenges and changes.

In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "e;pioneer in developing concepts and devices"e; for housing segregation.

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From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media.

Ten-year-old Gertie Larson shares three of her most exciting real-life adventures experienced in her hometown of Richfield, Utah, in the early 1900s.