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Finalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist Anthropology Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from th

Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum off

Examining how the shared interests of state elites and the middle classes rationalize mistreatment of domestic workers, the author argues that the "premodern" e

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of

From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John