Ethnic studies

White moderates have been a hidden obstacle to black-white equality in the United States for over two centuries.

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries.

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.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston MannDJ, media law expert, and ethnographeridentifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.

With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolinas Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River.

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome.

The immigration station at New Yorks Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln.

From 1898 until World War II, 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.

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.

Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression.

Elizabeth B.

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

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.

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.

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 many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible.

In 1961, the U.

This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson.

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel.

How is the state produced?

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society.

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

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.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

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

In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the postCivil War nation.

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries.

David Ruggles (18101849) was one of the most heroic and has been one of the most often overlooked figures of the early abolitionist movement in America.

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.

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

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization.

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important and intensively studied world regions?

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside generally unknown and seldom acknowledged.

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption.

We are in a bind, writes Evelyn M.

Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum.

The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples.

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots.

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

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

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din) popular music culture, Kristina M.

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

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

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