Ethnic studies

For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught.

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822.

When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era.

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history.

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Ricos history and evolution since the installation of U.

The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes.

For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal.

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a colored cabman.

In the heart of Washington, D.

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans.

Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.

Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as Professor.

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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today.

In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States.

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South.

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives.

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims.

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called Mexican Schools.

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (182271), Robert S.

Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism.

Gabriels Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South.

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project.

Junius Wilson (19082001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward.

Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century.

Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as Professor.

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans.

The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes.

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kk kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound.

This volume adds to the increasingly important debate on religion and modernity and their complex interplay in Muslim-majority societies.

Schools, universities and education more broadly are at the centre of multiple contestations over the past, present and future.

This volume adds to the increasingly important debate on religion and modernity and their complex interplay in Muslim-majority societies.

Innovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods.

China's profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel.

Affirmative action programs have significantly changed American medicine for the better, not only in medical school admissions and access to postgraduate training but also in bringing a higher quality of health care to all people.

Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire.

Mit einem Fokus auf die Potenziale von Geschichten und aufgrund einer fehlenden dramaturgischen Vielfalt wurde dieses Praxishandbuch für alle entwickelt, die sich mit Storytelling beschäftigen.

This book delves into the dynamics of contemporary Asian racialisation and anti-Asian racism, exploring how these entangled phenomena shape the experiences of Asian communities across various education contexts.

This book highlights the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship in today’s rapidly changing global landscape.

This book highlights the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship in today’s rapidly changing global landscape.

In The Afric-American Picture Gallery, Britt Rusert examines a work of episodic fiction by educator and activist William J.

Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire.

She's the prime suspect.

In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europes oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist.

We live in uncertain and unsettling times.