"How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador - a country str…
"Why does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others? Drawing on the boundary-making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a comparative analytic of ethnic group formation. He analyzes how and why ethni…
"This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, exploring not only race and gender, but also newer areas of study. Covering a wide array of films this compendium highlights the social impact of the entertainment…
"This book investigates how Rajput kinship structures and caste identities in nineteenth-century north India were reconstituted in response to colonial ideologies, political culture, and material realities. It seeks to argue that as the British circumscribed the authority and in…
"Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of govern…
In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship'ss program of forced nationalization. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar'ss nationalization project, the book illuminates an often-ign…
Pan African spaces: essays on Black transnationalism
The latest developments in the countries of eastern Europe pose important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations. This book traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on premodern forms of group identity among the Easte…
The author argues that neoliberal development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She analyzes the black social movements that emerged from the political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990…
"This volume presents new perspectives on Israeli society, Palestinian society, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Based on historical foundations, it examines how Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Arab, Israeli, and American c…