Ethnic Studies

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race a...

In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three...

The North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hege...

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which h...

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subseque...

American society is often characterized as a guilt culture, as opposed to non-Western shame cultures. But is this distinction still valid today? Th...

A novel study of the complex connections between Nelson Mandela and the nationalist leadership in the ANC with their kinsmen inside the Transkei Ba...

In The Haitian Revolution, the Harlem Renaissance, and Caribbean Negritude: Overlapping Discourses of Freedom and Identity, Tammie Jenkins argues t...

Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discr...

In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title Illuminates how global solidarity defined African American politics and invigorated the African diaspor...

From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian womens roles ...

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina fi...

Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat ...

With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defi...

This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors ...

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities inter...

How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms confl...

From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featur...