"Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing o…
"Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing o…
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
This book analyzes the emergence of ethnic consciousness among Hakka-speaking people in late imperial China in the context of their migrations in search of economic opportunities. It poses three central questions: What determined the temporal and geographic pattern of Hakka and …
Whether it is Turkish gastarbeiter in Germany, Japanese Nisei in Seattle, Filipinos in Kuwait, or Haitians in Brooklyn, the costs and benefits of human mobility on such a wide and rapid scale are hotly debated. Global History and Migrations, the second volume of the Global Histo…
