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Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
An Illinois activist and his abolitionist alliance
Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalised abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong ......
How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
Serving up new flavors of city life
Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presencesometimes desired, sometimes resentedthat turns a public street ......
Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
How working people from around the world imagined a new Los Angeles
A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. ......
How African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city
By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of ......
Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies. Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of ......
Ethnomusicologists have journeyed from Bali to Morocco to the depths of Amazonia to chronicle humanity's relationship with music. Margaret Sarkissian and Ted Solís guide us into the field's last great undiscovered country: ethnomusicology itself. Drawing on fieldwork ......
A daring interdisciplinary journey into the nexus of the humanities and ecological science
Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often ......
At last available in a Spanish-language edition, Ilegal is the acclaimed memoir of José Ángel N., an undocumented immigrant who built a new life in the United States. Arriving in the US having only finished the ninth grade, N. embraced education, rising from ESL classes to graduate school before becoming a professional translator. Despite a ......
The history of white supremacy and criminal justice
Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions ......
