Ethnic studies

This fiery manifesto provides a concrete action plan for legal professionals and activists advancing Black liberation and transformative social change.

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.

An examination of daily life and transnational migration in the Garifuna communities of Honduras and New YorkDescended from African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St.

By the 1840s, many Americans recognized that the institution of slavery was destroying Southern landscapes while threatening to expand into the West.

Reframing the cultural narrative of Asian American motherhood-through these mothers' own voices and experiences.

In the US, police conduct millions of traffic stops for reasons unrelated to safety.

A concise history of the service records and combat experience of the African American troops who rose above discrimination to fight for the Allied cause and paved the way for integrated armed forces.

A concise history of the service records and combat experience of the African American troops who rose above discrimination to fight for the Allied cause and paved the way for integrated armed forces.

A poignant and moving story about reclaiming language and the enduring power of love, told though the eyes of a little girl on a quest to learn her grandfather's hidden first language.

The Female as Subject presents 11 essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examining what women of different social classes read, what books were produced specifically for women, and the genres in which women themselves chose to write.

Television, Japan, and Globalization makes a monumental contribution to the literature of television studies, which has increasingly recognized its problematic focus on US and Western European media, and a compelling intervention in discussions of globalization, through its careful attention to contradictory and complex phenomena on Japanese TV.

The Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema.

Shirai Doya is a man of letters, a man of principles.

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch.

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch.

In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L.

This sharply argued book posits that urban revitalizationmaking better city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city planning and divestmentis a code word for fraught, state-managed gentrification.

THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph'A triumph' Financial Times'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday'Deeply moving' Sunday TimesMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph'Heartbreaking' The Times'Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him.

Red Clay, 1835 envelops students in the treaty negotiations between the Cherokee National Council and representatives of the United States at Red Clay, Tennessee.

Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginias tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises.

The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race.

In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the freedom generation of the 1870s.

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions?

Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities.

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States.

This fascinating book takes readers inside the world of faith-based progressive community organizing, one of the largest and most effective social justice movements in the United States.

In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nations growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.

Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history.

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.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South.

In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse.

Cities are nothing without the streetsthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow.

The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and visual culture.

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian womens political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (191534).

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country?

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.

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

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

In this book, Amy K.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia Spains Kingdom of Quito Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power.

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States.