Ethnic studies

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nations capital.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence.

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.

Elizabeth B.

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation.

In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the coolie trade and ending during World War II.

In 1961, the U.

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades.

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future?

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades.

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

In his 1903 hit Congo Love Song, James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans.

In this book, Stephanie J.

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.

Charles N.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration.

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

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.

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.

We are in a bind, writes Evelyn M.

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.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

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

By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the American Century.

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

Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children.

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration.

Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "e;world city"e; characterized by multiculturalism and globalization.

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models--and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract during lax labor market periods.

From the early days of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, activists collaborated with artists, musicians, and entertainers, strategically using celebrity and popular culture to amplify protest.

For almost two decades, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick have roamed the frontier of Afro-American history, blazing trails that others have followed.

China's Economic Development: The Interplay of Scarcity and Ideology by Alexander Eckstein provides a comprehensive analysis of China's economic growth and transformation from a socialist economy.

In the wake of the First World War, many Germans saw the future of their nation as contingent on a vision of municipal progress.

If, as many cultural critics have asserted, the world is becoming more like the Caribbean, then the task of charting what we mean by "e;the Caribbean"e; is an urgent one.

The first three decades of the twentieth century in late-colonial Vietnam -- the period that also marked the transition between the dominant Confucian and nascent Western worldviews -- generated an abundance of political literature in that country.

Prussia's social and political structure, institutions, and values were in many ways formative for German history after 1871.

Economic development and forest use, with special emphasis on understanding the components of forest degradation and exploitation in developing countries, are the focus of this book.

Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: A, Ewha Womans University (Graduate School of International Studies), course: Comparative Society and Culture , language: English, abstract: This paper deals with three of the original six different topics about spatial locations.

Ezra Pound professed a "e;belief"e; in Confucianism from the early 1930s till the end of his life.

Ezra Pound professed a "e;belief"e; in Confucianism from the early 1930s till the end of his life.

This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines.

Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 draws together important new work on the Kaiserreich--the period between Bismarck's unification of Germany and the First World War.

Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political and economic structures of the former German Democratic Republic are largely understood, yet many questions remain.