Social Groups

A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American familys mul...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the colonial administrations in British East-Central African colonies considered inter-raci...

In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican...

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters greatest voices, pondered these per...

From the University of Virginias very inception, slavery was deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to construct and then later...

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation, instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage,...

From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obamathe historical development of r...

This book provides the latest research in ethnic and cultural identity. The first chapter examines the relationship between ethnic identity, cultur...

The population of ethnic minorities in Britain has rapidly increased over the last 60 years. The census count indicates that the ethnic population ...

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays hi...

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth centur...

Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. Bu...

The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of Am...

Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state. Vla...

Before the Gold Rush of 18481858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontierand home to a colorful group of Spanish speaking, non-indi...

When U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, they left behind thousands of young children fathered by American soldiers. The new regime regarded the ...