One of the first things any visitor to Barbados notices is Barbadian youths wearing baseball caps and T-shirts sporting the logos of North American teams; and these days, one is more likely to find an American sitcom on television than a Caribbean program.
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
Thomas Day (180161), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina white or black during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities.
Affirmative action has been fiercely debated for more than a quarter of a century, producing much partisan literature, but little serious scholarship and almost nothing on its cultural and political origins.
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city's black population more than doubled.
Intervening in debates across literary trauma theory and ecocriticism, this book argues that in an age increasingly defined by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on society and ecology, it is necessary to graft the ethical concerns of trauma studies onto the lessons of ecocriticism, especially in the context of African literatures.
Affirmative action has been fiercely debated for more than a quarter of a century, producing much partisan literature, but little serious scholarship and almost nothing on its cultural and political origins.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Augsburg (Philologisch-historische Fakultät: Lehrstuhl für Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Abschied vom Winter.
Reiland Rabaka provides an alternative history of funk since the mid-1960s, which uncovers the epoch that funk women influenced and were influenced by while wrestling with issues revolving around race, gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously in the American music industry and in American society.
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.
Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (18591930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.
In early North America, carrying watercraftusually canoesand supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continents interior.
In early North America, carrying watercraftusually canoesand supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continents interior.
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.
This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions.
Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "e;syncretism"e; in which certain apparent deviations from "e;standard"e; practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions.
This book explores how different forms of narrative maintain and extend our knowledge of the Holocaust at this critical moment in history, when the last survivors are passing away.
This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions.
An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.
An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.
This approachable volume uncovers the often-hidden history behind the persistence and resilience of modern slavery in the United States, tracing its evolution from the forced labor on nineteenth-century plantations to today's hidden global networks of coercion, exploitation and human trafficking.
This book examines the transformative role of soundscapes and digital communication technologies in shaping listening practices, cultural identity, social cohesion, and civic engagement.
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.
This book offers a powerful reappraisal of the history of British boxing, revealing how the sport became both a platform for visibility and a site of struggle for migrants and minority individuals and communities.
Based on a three- year research study, this book presents a rich and immersive ethnographic exploration of the experiences of Chicana/ o- Latina/ o students and the Chicana/ o- Latina/ o scholastic youth culture in American middle schools.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kultur, Technik, Völker, Note: 2,9, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Vorstellung über das Zusammenleben mit anderen Kulturen ist heutzutage Alltag geworden und kein besonderes Phänomen mehr.
Essay aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Mittel- und Südamerika, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Seminar über Brasilien: Einblicke in ein gespaltenes Land - eine Suche nach sozialen, historischen, politischen und religiösen Faktoren, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern Konflikte um die Landverteilung indigener Territorien zu einer Politisierung von Indigenen in Brasilien führen.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Migration und Ethnizität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit Jahrzehnten, manche würden behaupten Jahrhunderten, prägt der Nordirlandkonflikt das gesellschaftliche und politische Leben auf der irischen Insel bis heute.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2022 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, , course: History and International Studies, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to assess the role of kinship and marriage system in Andoni.
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2018 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, The University of Waikato, language: English, abstract: The thesis is about the art, aesthetics and ethics of tattooing, for answering these questions: How do tattoo artists and their clients engage with and shape tattoo art and its aesthetic?
