Ethnic studies

Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of the public spaces where latinidad could circulate.

In Learning Without Lessons, David F.

This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden's growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed "e;Middle Passage"e; and "e;Frederick Douglass.

Picture yourself in China with this fun, graphic-novel inspired introduction to China, its culture and people!

Picture yourself in China with this fun, graphic-novel inspired introduction to China, its culture and people!

In Learning Without Lessons, David F.

Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white "e;outsider"e; observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be.

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 a drop of 93 percent.

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances.

Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity.

The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kultur, Technik, Völker, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am 16.

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience.

Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South.

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Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South.

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

In this book, Amy K.

In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative.

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

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.

After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation.

On November 28, 1729, Natchez warriors walked into Fort Rosalie, Louisiana, and opened fire on French colonists.

Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the Souths largest population of college-educated African Americans.

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped womens experiences and determined their identities.

Viola Franziska Mller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond.

Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people?

Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people?

Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face.

This text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their distinctions and impact on racial groups.

Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others?

After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November.

A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.

In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) the Union armys largest veterans' organization.

On the surface, Riverview High School looks like an exemplar of an integrated community.

The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law analyses how lawyers representing refugees use human rights provisions in national constitutions to close the gap between the Law and it's implementation.

Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Naher Osten, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten), Veranstaltung: Vertiefungsmodul Arabische Welt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll anhand zweier Szenen des Films "Hasan wa Murqus" die Darstellung der Konflikte zwischen den beiden Konfessionen auf der einen Seite und die Realisierung der interreligiösen Liebesbeziehung zwischen den beiden Kindern der Hauptcharaktere auf der anderen Seite, analysiert werden.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Religion, London Metropolitan University (Working Lives Research Institute), course: Dprof Researching Work, language: English, abstract: This work explores the spiritual thought and bodily work that has been an integral part of Islamic faith.

This classic book on Hawaiian families and culture is an essential text for anyone interested in pre-American Hawaii.

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned.

Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene.