Ethnic studies

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.

For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also aboutChristian theology.

During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S.

There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South.

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold.

This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F.

Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture.

During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished.

Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations.

Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition.

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration.

The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance.

The origin story of hip-hopone that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronxhas become received wisdom.

In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights.

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas.

The rise of black radicalism in the 1960s was a result of both the successes and the failures of the civil rights movement.

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In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group.

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War.

How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades?

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America.

Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.

Transcending familiar categories of black and white, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of southernness by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South.

Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America.

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a second emancipation in America.

When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own womens conference for the very next day.

This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism.

Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis.

African Americans' long campaign for the right to fight forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces.

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground.

Alan Berkman (19452009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president.

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn.

The civil rights movement required money.

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States.

For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (19392001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music.

The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site).

From nineteenth-century public baths to todays private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.

This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the timesfrom civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activismhelped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality.

Over the past decade, Anglo-American notions of textual construction and editorial theory have begun major paradigm shifts.

Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "e;Goldhagen Effect.

In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults.

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

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South.

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American.

Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "e;Goldhagen Effect.