Spencer Polk was born of an African-Indian slave woman known as Sally, and her master, Taylor Polk, a descendant of one of America's first families and one of the earliest white settlers in the Arkansas Territory.
During the last twenty years, voices from the First Nations have become louder, expressing their own solutions to problems that have plagued their communities since contact with the Europeans.
This book examines the impact of crises on people's lives by walking readers through several case studies from Mali, Niger, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Lebanon, Libya and several escape routes and entry points, such as the Canary Islands, into the European Union.
The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen's Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near Hawkesville, are the focus of this extensively researched book.
Para sobrevivir, los otomies precisan capturar y devorar a sus enemigos, quienes a su vez pretenden capturarlos y devorarlos: Cristo, la virgen y los santos, los curas catolicos y pastores evangelicos, las politicas del Estado y los funcionarios que ejecutan las imposiciones del progreso capitalista expresado en el extractivismo territorial de una de las zonas metropolitanas mas densamente pobladas de America Latina.
The American conflict over slavery reached a turning point in the early 1840s when three leading abolitionists presented provocative speeches that, for the first time, addressed the slaves directly rather than aiming rebukes at white owners.
Life in Canada is shaped by the seasons - marked, celebrated, enjoyed, and sometimes dreaded in ways that respond directly to the changing cycles in nature.
In Land of Famished Beings, Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring ecologies, socialities, and identities.
Esta publicación contiene investigaciones de campo que se desarrolló principalmente en Madrid – España, donde durante dos años – 2004 y 2005 – se siguió el rastro y se estableció contacto con varias personas de la comunidad kichwa-otavaleña de Madrid.
En el marco del "Año internacional de los Afrodescendientes", el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio e Integración (MRECI), la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) y la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS), organizaron el Encuentro Internacional de Reflexión y Participación AL OTRO LA'O DE LA RAYA (Quito, 12 – 13 de diciembre de 2011) cuyo objetivo fue la recuperación de la memoria y fortalecimiento de la identidad de los pueblos afrodescendientes en zonas de frontera.
An important new collection of original essays that examine how Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible Man (1952), addresses the social, cultural, political, economic, and racial contradictions of America.
Presenting six case studies from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, this volume marks one of the first forums dedicated to the emerging second generation in Asia.
This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.
Desde distintas miradas, este libro escudriña las muchas facetas que tiene la diversidad y los retos que enfrentamos al tratar de entenderlas y aceptarlas.
From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries.
Knowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities.
How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its foundingand how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwavesNational Public Radio was established in 1970 with a mission to provide programming for all Americans, yet the gap between public radio's pluralistic mandate and its failure to serve marginalized communities has plagued the industry from the start.
How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its foundingand how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwavesNational Public Radio was established in 1970 with a mission to provide programming for all Americans, yet the gap between public radio's pluralistic mandate and its failure to serve marginalized communities has plagued the industry from the start.
Este diccionario shuar-castellano lo llamamos enciclopédico porque, además del significado de las palabras, da información sobre la mitología, el uso de las plantas y las costumbres de los animales.
Este libro presenta cuentos sobre la creación y la resistencia, dos temas que parecen permear las historias, leyendas y mitos que comparten los indígenas de Cotacachi en el norte ecuatoriano.
La representacion que del pasado se hacen las poblaciones americanas, y muy especialmente las poblaciones amerindias, parece estar estrechamente vinculada a una serie de hitos espaciales y a determinadas entidades tutelares relacionadas con estos lugares.
At the dawn of the American Revolution, 39-year-old Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian, is the widowed partner of the legendary Sir William Johnson and mother of their eight young children.
