Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City
by Serena Cosgrove and José Idiáquez
Surviving the Americas is an intersectional analysis of Garifuna communities in the Americas, with an emphasis on those in Nicaragua and the United States. Cosgrove and Idiáquez, provide a platform for the voices of indigenous peoples through participatory and ethnographic research, highlighting the strategies for Garifuna persistence in the face of a myriad of oppressions.
In Latin America, as early as 1975 testimony given under oath by anthropologists has been applied in the civil law systems in a number of Latin American countries. Called peritajes antropológicos...
Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health is the first in a seven-series volume that looks at participatory public health research studies conducted by scholar/community...
Access to affordable housing is one of the most pressing issues facing cities worldwide, as populations grow and real estate prices rise. But the question of what we mean by the term “affordable...
by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason Heppler, Paul Schadewald, Rebecca Wingo, Jason Heppler and Paul Schadewald
Edited by Rebecca Wingo, Jason Heppler, Paul Schadewald, Jason Heppler and Paul Schadewald
Digital Community Engagement brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, this collection explores models for digital community engagement that leverage new media through reciprocal partnerships. The contributions to this volume stand at the crossroads of digital humanities, public history, and community engagement.
The essays in Creating Culture through Health Leadership focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share...
In Surveying in Early America: The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History,award-winning photographer Dan Patterson and American historian Clinton Terry vividly and accurately document and retrace the steps surveyors took to map the Ohio River Valley. Patterson and Terry thoroughly create detailed and historically accurate narratives paired with exquisite and vivid photographs of these little known expeditions of our founding father. Working with Colonial re-enactors at sites in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, from Fort Normal to Colonial Williamsburg, Patterson recreates the effort of Washington and his team of surveyors to map the American wilderness and occasionally lay personal claim land to great expanses of land along the way. Through the lens of Patterson camera, readers will see what Washington saw as he worked to learn his trade and then lead expeditions into the American interior using instruments and methods employed 260 years ago.
Clinton Terry is associate professor of history at Mercer University.
The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology
by Earl Wright II
Jim Crow Sociology examines the origin, development and significance of Black Sociology through the accomplishments of early African American male and female sociologists at Historically Black Colleges and Institutions (HBCUs) Atlanta University, Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University and Howard University.
