Ethnic studies

Washington, DC, has the nations largest racial life expectancy gap, and it has experienced many of the nations worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.

This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform.

Psychoanalytic Liberation Psychology challenges conventional psychological paradigms by developing a radical approach where psychoanalysis meets liberation psychology.

Drawing on diverse scholarly and theoretical perspectives, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions in contemporary Latin America as represented in its literature.

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation.

The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought: The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples.

Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project.

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation.

Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged.

Examining contemporary antiracism and its contributions to progressive politics, The Decline of Antiracism and the Future of Progressive Politics argues that contemporary antiracism has ignored the role of class and reduced social justice to symbolism and right-thinking.

Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican "e;trash cinema"e; began to shift away from the masked wrester genre and towards darker, more explicit films, and disturbing visions of the modern world: films which can be called "e;avant-exploitation.

This book demonstrates the epistemic challenges in the South African education system and asks readers to think critically about the university's role in a decolonial future.

In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma.

In Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, longtime antiracist facilitator Melanie S.

In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City's downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists.

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities.

This book tackles the spatial dimension of Europeanization in the Balkans by focusing on cities, inter-urban networks, and urban epistemic communities.

The Luwians played at least as important a role as the Hittites in the history of the Ancient Near East during the second and first millennia BCE, but for various reasons they have been overshadowed by and even confused with their more famous relatives and neighbours.

Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battleground and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature.