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More Than Two to Tango
Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for...
by Mai Neng Moua
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride's family has done in raising a daughter and offers a promise of love and security from the groom's family. Mai Neng, who knows the pain...
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It...
The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press
A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The Kwangju Uprising that occurred in May 1980 is burned into the minds of South Koreans in much the same way that Tiananmen is burned into the minds of contemporary Chinese. As the world watched in horror following the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, student protesters were brutally suppressed...
Unpardonable Crimes: the Legacy of Fidel Castro
Untold Tales of the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro presents a series of stories that, although written as fiction, are based on real events told author Celestino Heres by his family and friends. Everyone has a story to tell, and oftentimes there is a story behind a story. Many of the events that actually...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
by Mary A. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans are estimated to have attended Native American boarding schools during the course of over a century. Today, many of the off-reservation Native American boarding schools have closed, and those that remain are in danger of losing critical federal funding. Ironically,...
Flying Tigers Over Cambodia
An American Pilot’s Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the end of World War II, a number of former American military pilots formed the “Flying Tiger Line,” which soon became the world’s leading airfreight company. Its motto of “Anything, anytime, anywhere” was especially applicable in its humanitarian projects. In 1975, the Flying Tigers...
Black Elk Speaks
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity...
by Carolyn Niethammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.
She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses.
Frequently...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
by April R. Summitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Sequoyah's creation of an easy-to-learn syllabary for the Cherokee nation enabled far more than the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper of the Cherokee Nation, and the ability for Native Americans to communicate far more effectively than word of mouth can allow. In many ways, the effects of Sequoyah's...
by Michael Goines
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
The Black Man’s Burden – The Horrors of Southern Lynchings has been called the most thrilling expose of southern lawlessness ever presented to the American people. Author Irenas J. Palmer provides an insightful history lesson and relates the frightful experience of Julius Gardner, a man who was...
Ending the Vietnam War
The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from...