Ethnic studies

The Making of An African King is a study examining the causes of the kingship internecine struggle among the Effutu by exploring the two traditional systems of succession, the patrilineal and the matrilineal, among the Effutu (Awutu-abe), and how best to end political violence.

Since Crossing Sidelines, Crossing Cultures was originally published in 2000, new findings in Asian Pacific American sports have come to light.

The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria.

Black and Green is a call to action for the Black community to join the green movement.

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom.

This book investigates the impact of culture-based learning among secondary school children in India.

In the "e;tribal moment in American politics,"e; which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages.

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience.

Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people.

This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest.

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values.

The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America.

Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory.

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.

In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent.

Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure is the second in a unique series of comprehensive studies of tribal law in the United States.

Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s.

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art.

A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women, this book's contributors are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and victims.

American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years.

Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century.

The irresistible blockbuster YA romance of summer 2021 by six of the biggest voices in YA, as featured on ITV News.

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena.

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

Gettin' Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history.

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear.

Cherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country.

With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.

Loisaida as Urban Laboratory is the first in-depth analysis of the network of Puerto Rican community activism in New York City's Lower East Side from 1964 to 2001.

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people.

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius.

With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S.

There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.

Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr.

In Creole Italian, Justin A.

Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.

Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi.

Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena.

Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians.

In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history.

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica.

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears.

This is the third volume in Judson L.

Scholarship on Black internationalism has experienced a revival.