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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne W Houston
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Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... ( read more)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass
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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... ( read more)
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Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother... ( read more)
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... ( read more)
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Race Matters
by Cornel West
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With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. <BR>Cornel West is at the forefront... ( read more)
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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
by Vincent J. Cannato
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For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our... ( read more)
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Al' America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
by Jonathan Curiel
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From surf music to the ice cream cone—a lively and eye-opening look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America, by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist. "In 1960, a Pittsburgh couple hosting a visiting Muslim student from... ( read more)
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Latino Culture: A Dynamic Force in the Changing American Workplace
by Nilda Chong
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Written for mainstream managers, supervisors and employees who work
with Latinos, this volume explores the nuances of Latino culture in
the workplace. Chong and Baez, first-generation Latinas and human
resources experts, discuss Latino values and... ( read more)
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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
by Richard Rodriguez
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Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and... ( read more)
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Race
by Studs Terkel
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America's foremost oral historian tackles the most difficult and complicated issue in America today -- race relations -- by interviewing nearly a hundred blacks and whites. The result is a riveting and deeply moving -- and frequently provocative -- look... ( read more)
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Interviews | July 4, 2009
By Jill Owens
 Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,...
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Review-a-Day | June 28, 2009
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Minè Okubo: Following Her Own Road by Greg Robinson Reviewed by Jessica Knight Rain Taxi It's hard not to like Minè Okubo as we come to know her...
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Review-a-Day | June 12, 2009
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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World Ellis Island, through...
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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | May 28, 2009
By Lisa See
Describe your latest project. Shanghai Girls opens in 1937 in Shanghai — the Paris of Asia, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and...
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Original Essays | April 24, 2009
By Tamim Ansary
"When we in the West see videos of a girl shrieking for help while being beaten for consorting with boys, we picture a society filled with shrieking."
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