Minority Studies

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old...

Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now...

Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America's involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America treats citizens of Arab or middle eastern origin within...

This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, including...

Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as one of the historical nationalities making up the Spanish state, as legitimized by the Spanish...

One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going...

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by...

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of 'place'. Too often we are told about 'deprived neighbourhoods' but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865545168Author N.Brent KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671886271Author David RieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

In this exploration of the way racism is translated from the print-only era to the cyber era the author takes the reader through a devastatingly informative tour of white supremacy online. The book examines how white supremacist organizations have...

Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations-Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events-suggest just how wide the gap...

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and...

This book examines the experiences and values which shaped working-class life in Britain in the half-century from 1880. It takes as its focus a region, Lancashire, which was central to the social and political changes of the period. The discussion...

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive content, as shown, for instance, by the intense debate of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters Ali G and Borat, and...

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684844978Author Stephan ThernstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1023gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527150Author Maurice BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578827995Author Hang Thi Yen BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Hang BlackPublisher Hang BlackWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most...

This edited volume examines how and where gay men of color find "home" and what kind of home they find, how they make sense of race and sexuality, and how their experiences reflect what it means to be "raced" and "sexed" in America. The contributors...

From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To...

This book argues that the invention of Asian American identities serves as an index to the historical formation of modern America. By tracing constructions of "Asian American" to an interpenetrating dynamic between Asia and America, the author obtains a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121355Author Richard B. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826518439Author Philip E. MuehlenbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826515964Author Phyllis PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826515971Author Phyllis PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825856731Author Kristine JuulFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825856540Author Bernd HerrmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783894739287Author Maria MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit VerlagWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825807184Author Franz von Benda-BeckmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825811105Author Elizabeth KoeppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825891084Author Regina F. BendixFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Dubbed the ""decade of the Hispanic,"" the 1980s was instead a period of retrenchment for Chicanas/os as they continued to confront many of the problems and issues of earlier years in the face of a more conservative political environment. Following a...

Sooner or later every Asian American must deal with the question "Where do you come from?" It is probably the most familiar if least aggressive form of racism. It is a tip-off to the persistent notion that people of Asian ancestry are not real Americans,...

The tension between diversity and equality is central to debates about multiculturalism, self-determination, identity, and pluralism. How, for example, can the claims of ethnic and religious groups be respected when they conflict with individual rights...

How does a minority come to be? In an unusual project, a notable group of French and American scholars take the view that minorities are socially constructed. Their original studies of specific historical examples produce a series of stimulating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884855436Author Nasir HakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Secretarius Memps PublicationsPublisher Secretarius Memps PublicationsWeight(grams) 730g

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious...

The island has historically played a special role in the cultural imagination – sometimes as a place of promise of tranquillity; at other times the remoteness has seemed attractive for more sinister reasons. Using islands for extreme exclusion has a long...