Ethnic Studies

Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in...

A powerful history of student protests and student rights during the desegregation era In the late 1960s, protests led by students roiled high scho...

Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most oft...

In Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools, Bonnie E. French investigates the management of “diversity” at predominantly White, independent...

Mobilizing Ethnic Identity in the Andes examines why some groups choose to organize themselves based on ethnic identity, that is, why ethnic identi...

The lure of cowgirls and cowboys has hooked the American imagination with the lure of freedom and adventure since the turn of the twentieth century...

Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman: Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shap...

Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whi...

Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehuman...

While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive r...

This book examines the national criminal justice system’s and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system’s policies in terms of how they balanc...

Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As deb...

Using the convergence of the impact of globalization and political turmoil in Ghana on Ghanaian women as a backdrop, this book examines the migrati...

African American Philosophy and African American Philosophers have played a central role in understanding and also shaping what it means to be blac...

The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as i...

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative...

Read an excerpt "Chicago Firsthand" (click here). Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black femini...

Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine's Visual Representation, 1954–1965 examines the way Life Magazine covered ...

Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from po...

Confessions of a Chinese Heroine presents the candid autobiography of Ying Mulan (born 1933), member of a famous Catholic family in Beijing, and un...

Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever writt...

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of BlackLiberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police...

How does the media influence society? How do media representations of South Asians, as racial and ethnic minorities, perpetuate stereotypes about t...

The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs and institutions that will lead public education towards a...

Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with th...

The election of Donald Trump has called attention to the border wall and anti-Mexican discourses and policies, yet these issues are not new. Buildi...

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of o...

Directors Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee emerged as filmmakers toward the end of the 1960s, when the breakdown of the studio system pa...

American Roma: A Modern Investigation of Lived Experiences and Media Portrayals explores the representation of American Roma from the nineteenth-ce...

Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever writt...

Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive scholarship and disc...

Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s percep...

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award The first of its kind, Teacher Education across Minor...

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award The first of its kind, Teacher Education across Minor...

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding...

Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. I...

This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinio...

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements examines how people respond to minority movements in ways tha...

In An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays, Molefi Kete Asante, engages the age-old debate on Pan Africanism by providing an innov...

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Me...

With the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and supe...

Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict n...

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full o...

This book argues that critical race theory (CRT)—which originated within Legal Studies during the 1970s—has permeated multiple academic disciplines...

Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015 First Michelle Rosaldo Prize for a First Book in Feminist Anthropology from the Association for Feminist...

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries...

World War II was a turning point in US history, and its impact on Latinas and Latinos was life changing. Women served in the military, worked in ci...