Ethnic studies

The Renters Rights' Act: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive analysis of the most significant reform to residential tenancy law in England in over 30 years.

We think we know the story of womens suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Franoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Framed Visions analyzes the pivotal role American mass media and popular culture have played in shaping the political, social, and psychological identity of postwar Germans and Austrians.

In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B.

This book explores how Black-produced films, hip hop songs, and magazines shape the way we think about the African American high school experience.

This volume examines the similarities between the Indian and Latin American philosophical traditions while also highlighting how these similarities have materialized differently in the Indian or in the Latin American context.

Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach.

Chew, Shangeetha and Pillai offer valuable insights into the future of language use and development in Southeast Asia, one of the most diverse and culturally rich regions with differing socio-economic and political ecologies.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male).

Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (18791957) grew up amid former slave artisans.

Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 80, University of Leeds (Trinity & All Saints College), course: Cultural Analysis, language: English, abstract: At the beginning of the new century the perception that we are living at a time of deep change, in practise as well as in thought, is widespread.

Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools.

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The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started.

Aloha is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon.

At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to the fight for full citizenship.

Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches approach to race.

In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigrationwhat many have dubbed crimmigration.

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This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War.

Master's Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Asian studies, grade: 1,3, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (The Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning), course: World Heritage Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper is an analysis on the transformations seen on the Chattayum mundum which is the traditional attire of Syrian Christian women in Kerala, for it to have emerged as a costume for Margamkali, which is a native Syrian Christian dance-form.

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict.

Miguel La Sernas gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America.

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence.

Extinguishing a public health threat is difficult under any condition, let alone during a sweeping national revolution.

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independent nation it needed to generate solidarity across the Americas with its struggle against US colonial rule.

Intervening in debates across literary trauma theory and ecocriticism, this book argues that in an age increasingly defined by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on society and ecology, it is necessary to graft the ethical concerns of trauma studies onto the lessons of ecocriticism, especially in the context of African literatures.

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and administrators discriminate in ways that range from unintentional to malignant.

The New Madrid earthquakes of 181112 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries.

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha ch.

The field of black womens history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century.

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia.

By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end.

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for womens rights in the first decades of the twentieth century.

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian womens political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (191534).

The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and visual culture.

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth centurys longest campaign for Black civil rights.

This volume brings historians of science and social historians together to consider the role of "e;little tools"e;--such as tables, reports, questionnaires, dossiers, index cards--in establishing academic and bureaucratic claims to authority and objectivity.

Aaron McDuffie Moore (18631923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War.

In the post-Cold War era, the most common and often the most violent conflicts are ethnic conflicts.

Cubas geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.

After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami.

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the citys historically African American and white working-class west side.

In the 1910s, both W.

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'is ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion.

Cubas grassroots revolution prevailed on Americas doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.

In this book, Abby L.