Understanding Post-Colonial Africa
These four books help to introduce post-colonial Africa to the novice and explore some of the continent’s crises in greater depth, including the West’s complicity in them.
When Cultures Meet: First Contact in the Lake Champlain Basin
In fiction and nonfiction, the series explores the ramifications of contact between Europeans and the native inhabitants in the Champlain Basin and New England generally, and the ensuing history of the region.
Women’s Literature: Dual Heritages
This series features contemporary, multicultural female voices.
Canadian Cultural Diversity
Travel through Canada with four critically acclaimed books that make manifest Canada’s cultural diversity.
China’s Transformation
How has the Chinas dynamic growth affected people, culture, the environment?
Fleeing Dictatorship: Migration Stories of Cuban and Dominican Families
This series examines families displaced by the dictatorial regimes of Trujillo and Castro, exploring the complicated, ongoing relationships that those who come to the United States have with their home countries and cultures.
Gastronomy: Novels about Food and Culture
These mouth-watering novels highlight how what we eat is closely aligned with who we are.
International Migrations
To or from the United States, spanning India, Cuba, Greece, and Ireland, this series of Pulitzer-winning works spotlights characters in the midst of broader migrations.
Literary Reflections on Islam
This series offers literary reflections on Muslim piety and communal concepts such as ethics, governance, knowledge, and identity, and reveals transformations in faith and identity, as Muslims living at different times and in different places have interpreted Islam.
Mexican Americans: Experience and Identity
This series deals with the experiences of Mexicans living in the United States, from the struggles of migrant farmworkers and day laborers in California to coming of age stories of Chicanos as U.S. citizens.
