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In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on experts who collaborated across borders, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals forged shared networks in which they discussed ethnic minorities.

Examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organisations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Ashley Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood.

By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patino fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano Movement. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an "abolitionist" position on immigration - going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike.

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colours rushed to the US-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era.

In this account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the US and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that US-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism.

Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in-depth legal analysis illuminates a process not widely understood.

Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth.

This study is devoted to the tracing of the Hebrew literary influence of the Greek text of the New Testament. It discusses specifically one form, the extensive use of the inverted order called chiasmus, a form that seems to be a part of Hebrew thought itself, whether in poetry or in prose.

Offers an analysis of the causes of depression in a basic industry. The problems go deeper than poor management or exploitation. This volume examines the structure of the industry and shows why chronic depression will be practically inevitable in a large part of the industry until certain evils such as speculation are corrected. Originally published in 1930.

These plays tell of comedy and tragedy in the lives of people far in the backcountry of the Deep South. They present characters such as a young black widow, a scapegrace black troubadour, and a lively black girl in their native surroundings and portray what life is like for them. These plays may be produced simply on school and little theatre stages. Originally published in 1943.

A statistical study designed to analyse the trend of illiteracy in the United States and its present relation to sex, age, urban and rural environment, race and nationality, and school systems, together with its quantitative effect on the selected factors of birth-rate, infant mortality, early age of marriage, size of family, mobility, suicide, and urbanization. Originally published in 1930.

Amid the turmoil of conflicting world forces, economic and social, the origin and development of the labour movement has been obscured. This is a study of its main outlines in those countries where it first became coherent. Originally published in 1942.

This is a report on a unique experiment in organized community living and adult education conducted in Greenville County, South Carolina. With a County Council for Community Development for guidance, the people of the region set out to study their own problems-of health, government, education, and recreation-and to solve them in the light of expert knowledge. Originally published in 1942.

In order to survive as a democracy the US must have a disciplined citizenry. This book states the case for the dynamic nature of a democratic discipline. The ends chosen to show a disciplined citizenship are based on the ancient trinity of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, ideals served by the disciplines of science, art, and politics. Originally published in 1942.

Using the poet's autobiographical poem, "The Prelude", the author refutes the theory that the radical Wordsworth was completely lost in the conservative older man by showing a close relationship between his early pantheism and his later Christian beliefs. She sets forth a Wordsworth little known even to Wordsworthian scholars. Originally published in 1942.

In the golden days of its material prosperity, Charleston built a pattern of culture whose opulence and grace have not been duplicated elsewhere in America. No American city espoused the cause of independence with more courage and spirit. This study of the culture of early Charleston adds to our knowledge of the American past and the American tradition. Originally published in 1942.

Philip Pendleton Cooke, a typical Virginia gentleman farmer and lawyer, realized a creditable achievement in lyric poetry, in critical essays marked by vigorous good sense, and in the historical tales to which he returned. His work received recognition from leading literary men of his day, and his writing merits attention in any consideration of Southern literature. Originally published in 1942.

A volume of collected poems by a man who is considered by some to rank among such notables as Conrad Aiken, MacLeish, Eliot, Spender, Auden, and Frost. As a poet he exhibits a fine eye and ear and a fine mind for an appraisement of the scene around him. Originally published in 1942.

Offers an illuminating approach to Shakespeare's orations, which are analysed as to structure, classified as to the type of oratory used in each, referred to their sources, and discussed in their relations to orations in other Elizabethan plays and to the study of oratory in Elizabethan schools. Originally published in 1942.

Much has been written about America's Gilded Age - that turbulent period from 1870 to 1900 when the great fortunes were built and monopolies founded. Taylor reexamines the period through the work of its novelists - Mark Twain, Edward Bellamy, Frank Norris, and a host of lesser figures. This book sharply questions many of our present ideas about the time. Originally published in 1942.

For half a century, Horace Williams was denounced as an atheist and acclaimed as an exponent of truth, goodness, and beauty. In the early 1890s he came to Chapel Hill to teach modern philosophy and to revolutionize the thought of the South. Originally published in 1942.

The problem of exploitation of native labour in South Africa is an outgrowth of the conscious policy of discrimination against natives that has been followed by successive governments and supported by the white labour unions. Originally published in 1942.

The English have displayed a tremendous interest in Heine. The author presents and appraises a large number of translations, articles, reviews, letters, diaries, and other material that indicate both the extent and nature of the interest in this enigmatic genius. Originally published in 1943.