Ethnic studies

In 2012, Chicagos school year began with the citys first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.

The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms.

At first glance, Jessica Ingrams landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints.

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.

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Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era.

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

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims.

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials.

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States.

The power of unions in workers lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s.

We are in a bind, writes Evelyn M.

Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected.

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students.

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The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s.

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

The last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's nonviolence and Nehru's diplomacy.

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

Latino City explores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New Englands first Latino-majority city.

Cities are nothing without the streetsthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow.

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement.

As the enduring last frontier, Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire.

In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of the streets not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades.

In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribes rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge.

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F.

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe.

This fascinating book takes readers inside the world of faith-based progressive community organizing, one of the largest and most effective social justice movements in the United States.

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (18591930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women.

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cubas most influential writers settled in U.

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

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In 1961, the U.

This book examines the implementation of immigration policy in Mexico through an ethnographic and relational lens, focusing on the subjectivities of state officials.

Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era.

This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.

This book explores the complex socio-cultural histories of the rivers of West Bengal in India.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Südasienkunde, Südostasienkunde, Note: 1.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters.

In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state.

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (18951973).

In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule.

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B.