Demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the "normal" American. Building her argument from detailed readings of an array of popular texts and focusing on how sex education for children and marita…
The Gold Rush of 1849 drastically changed the lives of the Indians of the interior of California as white gold-seekers poured into the region. Some Indians fought the intruders, and when conflicts escalated, the federal government sent three agents to California to settle disput…
"In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists ga…
This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience…
This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience…
These essays explore cyberculture studies as it affects a range of questions, including the role played by language in the construction of racialized identities online and offline representations of cyberspace as a racially coded environment.
These essays explore cyberculture studies as it affects a range of questions, including the role played by language in the construction of racialized identities online and offline representations of cyberspace as a racially coded environment.
These essays explore cyberculture studies as it affects a range of questions, including the role played by language in the construction of racialized identities online and offline representations of cyberspace as a racially coded environment.
"Developed from the critically acclaimed Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, the Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-v…
The book comprises essays, each highlighting a particular word or term germane to the study of race and ethnic studies.
Discusses the representation of race and Aboriginality (chapters 3 and 4); Lemurian novels; racial anxiety in Fevenc's 'The Secret of the Australian Desert', Scott's 'The Last Lemurian', Macdonald's 'The Lost Explorers' and Walker's 'The Silver Queen' - anxiety of identity loss …
This study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. It also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building a…
"The Artificial White Man proves the rightness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on issues surrounding the often misdirected American hunger for "authenticity." Though the essa…
