The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of
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Jean Genet's masterpiece Les N_gres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first perfor
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For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to captur
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extrao
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This volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups
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A sociological analysis of how immigration transforms Mexican immigrants' understandings of race in home and host c
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Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from
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Describes a solo voyage across the north Atlantic, that turned out to be an unprecedented challenge. The author spells o
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While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race,
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This book examines from a transnational and multilingual perspective the Transatlantic flow of modern poetry and poetics
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In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of
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