Society and culture: general

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels.

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.

On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.

In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party.

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation.

Elijah Muhammads Nation of Islam came to Americas attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South and how the South has shaped the history of mass media.

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E.

After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation.

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.

Paul and Angela Knipples culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions down home.

Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks.

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers.

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn.

For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory.

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing.

Discussions around racism in healthcare often lead nowhere and decentre the people that it impacts the most.

This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain's 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher.

This is a study of how the Northern Ireland conflict was presented to an increasingly global audience during the premiership of Britain's 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher.

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.

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true.

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.

Get to know the women of Jeme, a Christian enclave in Egypt that existed from 600 to 800 C.

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition.

Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely.

Consider your surroundings.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Westeuropa, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, inwieweit der sicherheitspolitische Diskurs um illegale Migration der Europäischen Union ermöglicht, sich als Problemlöser der inneren Sicherheit zu etablieren.

Social work is a complex career - a hugely rewarding way to make a difference in people's lives, paired with an enormous responsibility to get it right.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 1,0, University of Education, language: English, abstract: Democracy's core value simultaneously challenges it.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

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

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

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized for its critical perspectives on mainstream understandings of health and for its progressive policy achievements.

China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years.

Companies, lawyers, privacy officers, compliance managers, as well as human resources, marketing and IT professionals are increasingly facing privacy issues.

News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II.

News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II.

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

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.

With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities of value.

With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities of value.