Ethnic studies

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time.

Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation.

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In this ';must-read for anyone concerned with race, sports, and politics in America' (William C.

In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B.

In her powerful and inspiring memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin ';Magic' Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.

From the bestselling author of The Afterlife of Malcolm X comes a brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950sSmoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good storyterrific, eminently readablefascinating (The Washington Post).

';If you care about basketball or about people, you will care about this book.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull.

On August 23, 1877, a scout named Jack Bean watched 600 Nez Perce Indians head into the new Yellowstone National Park.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

In this captivating Western novel, a wagon train scout runs afoul of a band of Apaches, who are determined to hunt him down, no matter the cost.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862.

In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Comanches in tales nearly too tall to be true.

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes.

The Definitive Guide to Ancient and Contemporary Rock Art!

Colorado Territory in 1864 wasnt merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union.

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Colorado Territory in 1864 wasnt merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union.

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movementthe 1955 lynching of Emmett Till';and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it' (The Atlantic).

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A friendship with benefits?

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Falling for the boss, or taking him down?

Two classic Westmoreland novels from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authorBrenda JacksonTHE PROPOSALThe moment Jason Westmoreland meets Bella Bostwick, he wants her-and the land she's inherited.

From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L.

When Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins was growing up, his mother routinely told him, "e;Long, you walk on a path cleared by others, so it is your responsibility to clear the path for others.

By 2030 Latinos will comprise roughly 20 percent of the population of the United States.

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.

'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | 'ESSENTIAL' Jaspreet Kaur | 'INSPIRATIONAL' Sophie Williams | 'REVEALING' Tineka Smith | 'NECESSARY' Natalie Alexis LeeWhat does it mean to be mixed race in today's society?

A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.

A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.

Discover Mya-Rose Craig's moving and life-affirming memoir about family, searching for rare birds, and the power of our natural world.

'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King.

'Unbearably moving' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe story of a young man's coming of age, a tender tribute to a life lost, and a devastating analysis of a broken system.

Can this orphan ever fulfil her nursing dreams.

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L.

A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023.

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative.

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers.

The essential anti-racist book from one of the world's leading voices for change'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.

From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of HampshireIn the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born.

Attribute wie heilig, sakral und vor allem tabu bezeichnen ein ambivalentes Phänomen, das sich die Moderne mit dem Bedeutungsspektrum des lateinischen 'sacer' erklärt hat: ehrwürdig und unantastbar, aber auch verworfen und unberührbar, strikt von der Sphäre des 'profanum' getrennt und irreduzibel anders.