Race and Ethnicity
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760
With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and ...
African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy?
The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion ...
Multicultural American Literature
In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the notable ...
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and high-school ...
Whitewashing America
Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life. "
Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, ...
Black and White
With essays and commentaries by Sylvia R. Frey, Elliott J. Gorn, Robert L. Hall, Charles Joyner, Lawrence T. McDonnell, Bill C. Malone, Leslie Howard Owens, Mechal Sobel, Brenda Stevenson, and John Michael ...
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
In 1956, two years after the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously outlawed legally imposed racial segregation in public schools, Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission.
This was the executive ...
The World of Richard Wright
Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as "an outsider between two cultures," a man searching.
In these twelve essays written over the last two decades Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, ...
Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837-1893
Based on the correspondence of missionaries in the field, this book offers valuable insight unto understanding Protestant attitudes toward the American Indians in the nineteenth century. By focusing upon ...
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
From more than a hundred autobiographical accounts written by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions this book recovers a perspective that was almost lost. ...