Ethnic studies

This extraordinary book by Derald Wing Sue, a highly-regarded academic and author, helps readers understand and combat racism in themselves.

Sweeping in scope, Health Issues in the Latino Community identifies and offers an in-depth examination of the most critical health issues that affect Latino's health and health care within the United States.

"e;Gloria Ladson-Billings provides a perceptive and interestingaccount of what is needed to prepare novice teachers to besuccessful with all students in our multicultural society.

This thorough analysis of multicultural assessment covers significant issues, including the major instruments and procedures, cognitive and educational assessment, and cross-cultural sensitivity and ethics.

Many blacks in the workplace face a set of dynamics unique to being African American in a traditionally white, male-dominated world.

One stormy August night, a lightning bolt struck Mark Warren's tin-roofed farmhouse and burnedeverything to the ground.

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horsesmen lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out.

Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "e;Outstanding Western Novel"e; 2005As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger.

Voces Wayuu del Agua y el Viento: Encuentros Ontológicos en la Guajira frente a la Transición Energética es una obra que nos invita a sumergirnos en la cosmovisión Wayuu, un pueblo que entiende el mundo a través de los sueños y el respeto profundo por el agua y el viento.

Esta compilación está organizada por capítulos que contienen resultados de investigaciones etnográficas sobre temas y problemas diversos, desarrolladas por equipos integrados por investigadores académicos y no académicos.

This book provides a reasoned, unflinching description of how race and paid work are linked in U.

Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882.

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government.

We hear much talk about the advent of a postracial age.

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in US politics.

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life.

White identity is in ferment.

Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways.

Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics.

At a time when many public commentators are turning against multiculturalism in response to fears about militant Islam, immigration or social cohesion, Tariq Modood, one of the world's leading authorities on multiculturalism, provides a distinctive contribution to these debates.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live.

Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation.

In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time.

In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes.

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades.

Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether.

If social science's "e;cultural turn"e; has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced.

Be inspired and amazed by these incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander icons!

How is hate shaping our society?

Why does identity demand a choice between black and white?

ON RAGE is Germaine Greer's timeless essay about Aboriginal dispossession.

'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking.

A born storyteller, Troy Cassar-Daley has at last turned his talent to sharing his own inspiring life.

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIRA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known.

A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history.

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe.

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large.

If social science's "e;cultural turn"e; has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced.

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors.

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one's background or upbringing.