What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...

In 2012, Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl--known collectively as PearlDamour--began visiting five small American towns named Milton....

The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe...

Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s....

Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was in many ways the crowning event of the nineteenth century United States....

Polk examines how the shifting views of Black military through the first half of the 20th century, as the U.S. increased its global empire and warfare...

Morel tells us which of the founders Lincoln particularly admired, why the Declaration was of greater import to Lincoln’s political thinking than the Constitution and how Lincoln turned to the Declaration again and again throughout his adult life....

It was not a foregone conclusion that the USA would be U. Woodard explains why and how it became U....

Hall tells the story of the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people who lived and controlled a large region of what is today the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains...

Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global citizenship...

How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion...

Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...

Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.

81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....

Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...

Fischer explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers...