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The columbia guide to american indians of the great plains
Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today are often confused and conflate...
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The columbia history of latinos in the united states since 1960
Latinos are now the largest so-called minority group in the United States—the result of a growth trend that began in the mid-twentieth century—and the influence of Latin cultures on American life is reflected in everything from politics to education to mass cultural forms such as music and televi...
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The ethics of identity
Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain...
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The global and the intimate
By placing the global and the intimate in near relation, sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors forge a distinctively feminist approach to questions of transnational relations, economic development, and intercultural exchange. This pairing enables personal modes of writing and ...
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The good immigrants
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance bec...
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The great demographic illusion
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will crea...
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The inhuman race
Reconstructs a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves) by arguing that the literature of race in antebellum America is the continuing story of an encounter with the grotesque. The focus is on literature-from Puritan captivity acco...
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The management of hate
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riv...
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The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism
What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from...
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The protestant ethnic and the spirit of capitalism
In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, straddling as it does an...
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The psychoanalysis of race
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The public pedagogy of the master narrative
Through a wide range of interviews with experts in areas ranging from US states generally perceived as being progressive to countries including Finland, Algeria and Japan, the author explores how a centuries-long battle for control of the narrative around race and language continues to be fought ...
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The rey chow reader
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural ...
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The weave of my life
"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us."Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawa...
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Too black to be here?
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that draws from critical race theory, whiteness studies, post-structural, and postcolonial theories, Paul Thomas offers both a scholarly and personal narrative.
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Towards building anti-racist communities
Aimed at educators and community members seeking to build an antiracist society, this book examines lived teaching and researching experiences which illustrate and challenge the inequities that arise in classrooms with diverse student bodies.
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Transformative translanguaging espacios
This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideol...
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Under representation
Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of repre...
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Undivided rights
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
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Untold autoethnographic stories of (in)justice, teaching and scholarship
The voices in this book raise questions about the relationalities and entanglements of applied linguists in a troubled world. They are the personal stories that are sometimes hidden behind and within more conventional teaching, research and scholarship, however iconoclastic and unconventional the...
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Viral justice
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race...
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Voices of asian americans in higher education
This book presents personal narratives from 10 Asian American educators and scholars, highlighting their experiences in higher education. It addresses the emotional and psychological challenges of being perceived as "outsiders" and aims to be a valuable resource for students, faculty, and policym...
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War in worcester
War in Worcester explores the experiences of the young in taking a stand against the apartheid regime in the 1980s at the height of the struggle for freedom. It combines an analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s process and findings with a close ethnographic study in ...
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Weaponized whiteness
This study of of white supremacy and white identity politics is thorough, insightful, and sociologically grounded.
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What is we?
An analysis of the concept "we" and the central role it plays in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Rather than as a collective to belong to or be excluded from, or as a specific group to be identified with, the book argues that "we" functions as a method.
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Where are all the young men and women of color?
When it comes to social work practice in community outreach programs, in juvenile detention centres, in prisons, in parole and probation programs, and in the inner cities, Melvin Delgado asks the question: Where are all the young men and women of color? Although many urban residents, especially p...
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You have given me a country
A multi-genre memoir exploring the author's Irish-Catholic, Sindhi Indian, and American identities.
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