Ethnic studies

Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent.

This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia.

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959.

This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist.

Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism.

With all of the progress African Americans have made, they still face many risks that threaten the entire race or place segments in jeopardy of survival.

This riveting narrative focuses on the Buffalo Soldiers, tracing the legacy of black military service and its social, economic, and political impact from the colonial era through the end of the 19th century.

This provocative look at the connections-and conflicts-between Latinos and African Americans in the United States assesses the challenges facing both groups as they strive to achieve the American dream.

This book examines how the media-including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction-has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States.

Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline.

What are the voting behaviors of the various minority groups in the United States and how will they shape the elections of tomorrow?

The study of modern racism has tended to treat anti-Semitism and anti-black racism as separate and unconnected phenomena.

Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.

This work analyzes the "e;New Ethnicity"e; of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade.

Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970.

The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet

In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley.

This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith.

The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alferez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives: the picaresque novels La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades (anonymous), La picara Justina by Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, the chronicle Relacion que dio Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yva por governador Panfilo de Narvaez desde el ano de veynte y siete hasta el ano de treinta y seis que bolvio a Sevilla con tres de su compania by Cabeza de Vaca and the soldier's narrative Vida, nacimiento, padres, y crianza del Capitan Alonso de Contreras natural de Madrid Cavallero del orden de San Juan Comendador de una de sus encomiendas en Castilla, escrita por el mismo by Alonso de Contreras.

Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made recognizes limitations in contemporary understandings that separate history and rhetoric.

Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure.

This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from "e;Our Osage Hills,"e; a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews.

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength.

During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley.

This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture-a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution-and the memoir of his son, Isaac.

This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia.

This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture-a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution-and the memoir of his son, Isaac.

This work analyzes the "e;New Ethnicity"e; of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade.

Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline.

Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism.

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959.

Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure.

The Art of Mackin'' was written by Tariq "King" Nasheed.

Without Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century.

From one of this country''s most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens.

Bill Robertson was one of our greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice.

This first book in a three volume series celebrates and examines the work of four African American authors of young adult literature.

Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion.

American Indian Education/indigenous education is still faltering today and is not producing significant differences in results where school practices follow those for the dominant culture.

Today's public schools represent a demographic of students that are more diverse than ever before.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?

This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues.

Why should we care about the education of privileged white students?

Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities.

As pedagogical leaders, principals and vice-principals must necessarily prioritize teacher supervision.

"Know whence you came.

Church growth in metropolitan communities motivated a short study concerning the pastoral care and counseling of immigrants, specifically Black Caribbean congregants in large/mega congregations.

This first book in a three volume series celebrates and examines the work of four African American authors of young adult literature.

To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material.

Why does racism, conscious and unconscious, remain a persistent issue in American society?