Beauty shops are places where women can enjoy the company of other women and exchange information or secrets. This work traces the development of the American beauty shop, from its largely separate racial origins, through white recognition of the ethnic market, to the end of the 20th century.
An epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830s to World War I thousands of indentured labourers were shipped from India to the Caribbean. The study is based on official documents and archives, as well as material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources.
Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation
Considers immigration in the context of the global and national economy, examining such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism.
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Drawing from local as well as international examples, this book present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing.
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Drawing from local as well as international examples, this book present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing.
Exploring the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in the USA in terms of patterns of European and American racism, this book delves into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction Amendments).
In this history of race relations during the Vietnam War, James E.Westheider illustrates how American soldiers in Vietnam grappled with the same racial conflicts that were roiling their homeland thousands of miles away.
In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline.
These essays investigate why and how the spectre of sexual relations across racial boundaries has so threatened North Americans of all colours and classes. Traversing centuries of American history, the contributors cover a range of regions, races, ethnicities and sexual orientations.
