Ethnic Studies

This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth...

Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyz...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, t...

In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study...

Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to...

People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

How is it that recipients of white privilege deny the role they play in reproducing racial inequality? Racing for Innocence addresses this question...

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supporte...

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flash...

Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and Californ...

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent mi...

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top lev...

Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the pas...

The "Latino vote" has become a mantra in political media, as journalists, pundits, and social scientists regularly weigh in on Latinos' loyalty to ...

In a time of intensified global white supremacist and patriarchal violence, anti-racist feminist movements and analyses have never been more vital....

This book examines the role of complaining in conversation and online interaction in Korean society. Kyung-Eun Yoon examines patterns of formulatin...

In principle, collective security is designed on a common understanding that peace and security is indivisible in which the load of order-keeping s...

In this insightful work, Harry H. Singleton, III, analyzes the white religious establishment’s use of Christian faith throughout American history t...

Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews...

In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In Model Machines, Lon...

In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-gr...