Ethnic studies

From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century.

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "e;carpetbagger,"e; best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion TourgA(c)e battled his entire life for racial justice.

The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked.

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race.

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "e;African"e; but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban.

It is communion Sunday at a mixed-race church.

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists.

Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly.

Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn.

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In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment.

"e;Black is Beautiful!

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help.

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing.

The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity.

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Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta.

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history.

Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white girls do.

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative"e; and in The Washington Post Book World as "e;brilliantly original,"e; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

"e;Everything you know about Indians is wrong.

During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States.

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth.

Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama.

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In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians.

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity.

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice.

Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence.

With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.

Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?

Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice.

In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation.

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home.

Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama.