About the Author

Kurt E. Kinbacher is an assistant professor of history at Chadron State College. He is co-editor of Reconfigurations of Native North America and author of several articles and book chapters that focus on identity construction, human migrations, and region. His teaching interests are global in scope with favoritism towards East Asia and North America from a world-wide perspective.

Reviews

Urban Villages presents readers with a new variation on the traditional narrative of U.S. immigration and urban history. In this thoroughly documented work, Kinbacher makes a compelling argument for rethinking how race, ethnicity, and identity shape our urban spaces and local communities in the Great Plains."" - Elaine Marie Nelson, University of Nebraska at Omaha