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Ethnic Studies



Ethnic Studies

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Middle Eastern American
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more)

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General
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Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families
Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families
by Anita Diamant
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Living a Jewish Life describes Judaism as not just a contemplative or abstract system of thought but as a blueprint for living fully and honorably. This new edition builds on the classic guide, which has been a favorite among Jewish educators and... (read more)

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Latin American
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day
Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day
by Luis J Rodriguez
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By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more)

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Asian American
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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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Japanese American
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)
by Lauren Kessler
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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more)

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Immigration
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Hyperborder: the Contemporary U.S.- Mexico Border and It's Future (08 Edition)
Hyperborder: the Contemporary U.S.- Mexico Border and It's Future (08 Edition)
by Fernando Romero
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Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a 700-mile-long fence: the U.S. Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. With more than one million daily crossings, the... (read more)

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Racism and Ethnic Conflict
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing... (read more)

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European American
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
by Kati Marton
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You are opening a Pandora's box, Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths:... (read more)

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Out of the Frying Pan
Out of the Frying Pan
by Bill Hosokawa
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From vividly recollected personal experiences, Out of the Frying Pan is a fresh, personal account of one of the greatest injustices in 20th-century U.S. history. Bill Hosokawa, this country's leading Japanese American journalist, tells how he, his wife... (read more)

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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
by Firoozeh Dumas
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Mining her rich Persian heritage with dry wit and a bold spirit, Firoozeh Dumas puts her own unique mark on the themes of family, community, and tradition. Explaining crossover cultural food fare, Dumas says, The weirdest American culinary marriage is... (read more)

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