Ethnic studies

People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions.

Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature.

In 1917, Fort Ord was established in the tiny subdivision of Seaside, California.

Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation.

BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOMA master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States.

Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages.

Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack.

Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.

"e;When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work.

The Latina/o population constitutes the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people fled by boat to escape North Vietnam's oppressive communist regime.

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled.

Anyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute.

In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos.

Why do racial and ethnic groups discriminate against each other?

A study of the racial-ethnic history of the United States and the perpetuation of racial hierarchy.

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level.

The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history.

The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World.

When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden.

Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944).

The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions.

Shaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers.

The deeply entrenched patterns of racial inequality in the United States simply do not square with the liberal notion of a nation-state of equal citizens.

From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range.

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support "e;colorblindness"e; and racial equality.

Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport.

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change?

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Provides a full explanation for each character of the Celtic tree alphabets and their historic variants, including each symbols corresponding trees, colors, birds, cryptic codes, and esoteric inner meanings Explores the use of Celtic tree alphabets in spiritual invocation, divination, and symbolic art as well as the practice of Ogham cryptography Explains how, like Norse Runes, each Ogham character is a meditative symbol in its own right and offers the possibility of deep psychic transformationEmanating from the spiritual traditions of Celtic antiquity, Ogham is best known as a tree alphabet.

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In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.

"e;Helps to articulate those pressing strategic questions necessary in formulating-and executing-American strategy in this critical part of the world.

Racism has never been simple.

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China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power.

* 2025 Locus Awards Winner, Non-Fiction* 2025 Ignyte Awards Winner, Outstanding Creative Nonfiction* 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, African American Non-Fiction* 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist* 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award (BSFA) Shortlist, Best Short Non-Fiction * 2024 BSFA Award Longlist, Best Long Non-Fiction* One of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024* One of Open Country Mag's 60 Notable African Books of 2024In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.

This edited volume reflects on the profound effort undertaken by artists to contest settler denial and amnesia to disclose Australia's foundations in racialised violence and land theft.

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

Joel Spring's history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization-the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group.

This book analyzes the process of national identity formation and identification of children born into formal and informal Polish-German relationships in Poland and Germany, and how that process is impacted by their upbringing at the intersection of two cultures.

Love letters to BreAnna--this is a book of how a mother communicates to her daughter who has autism through letters and stories.

The Effective Security Officer's Training Manual, Third Edition teaches today's security officers the most important aspects of performing the job of a security officer professionally and effectively.

This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.