A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.
A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field.
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative.
How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to todayAs right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat.
How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and raceIn the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "e;outed"e; by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race.
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past.
The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism.
A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and IsraelRacism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world.
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace.
An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries.
This book traces the origins of the "e;illegal alien"e; in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.
A historical overview of the census race question-and a bold proposal for eliminating itAmerica is preoccupied with race statistics-perhaps more than any other nation.
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice?
While we hear much about the "e;culture of poverty"e; that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream.
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar OaklandAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined.
Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting.
How Latino Catholics and America are transforming each otherMost histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates.
Two trends are dramatically altering the American political landscape: growing immigration and the rising prominence of independent and nonpartisan voters.
The story of how East Asians became "e;yellow"e; in the Western imagination-and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white.
Recovering the lost history of a crucial era in African American literatureThe Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era.
The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's AmericaBarack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "e;The past isn't dead and buried.
Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era.
The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds, and whyAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body?
The untold story of how colonial New England was built on the Atlantic slave tradeTen Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England.
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "e;rogue state"e; on the frontline of a "e;clash of civilizations"e; between the Orient and the West.
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "e;Jewish question"e; for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India.
Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans.
26-year-old Akash Amin has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the painful memories of the first boy he ever loved.
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era.
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "e;Jewish question"e; for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India.
Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.
