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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang  Publisher Comments In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has...
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All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers...
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Modern Japan: Modern Japan, 2nd Edition
by Elise K. Tipton Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated edition provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized,...
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Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today
by David Brotherton Publisher Comments America's reputation for open immigration has always been accompanied by a desire to remove or discourage the migration of undesirables. But recent restrictions placed on immigrants, along with an increase in detentions and deportations, point to a more...
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on...
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Ask a Mexican
by Gustavo Arellano Publisher Comments DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN! ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions...
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The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
by Judith Adle Hellman Publisher Comments By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families "Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—...
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International Migration in Europe: Data, Models and Estimates
by James (edt) Raymer Publisher Comments At present there is no unified treatment, drawing together models to allow a consistent and reliable set of migration flows, across countries. This text seeks to do exactly that, potentially improving policies, planning and understanding about migration...
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African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence (Greenwood Icons)
by Matthew C. (edt) Whitaker Publisher Comments This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric styles, and illuminates the history of highly successful and influential individuals, athletes and teams who have...
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Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest workers and families benefited from...
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We Will Be Heard: Voices in the Struggle for Constitutional Rights
by Bud Schultz Synopsis Freedom of expression, a fundamental right in any democracy, has often been denied to Americans whose beliefs challenge the status quo. We Will Be Heard features over 90 stirring portraits and first-person accounts of Americans targeted for speaking out...
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The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson Publisher Comments The role that racial and ethnic issues play in influencing—and often ultimately deciding—presidential elections past, present, and future is analyzed in this explosive and hard-hitting study. The history of race on the campaign trail is...
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The "Great Satan" Vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other
by William Beeman Publisher Comments For more than twenty-five years, the United States and Iran have been diplomatically estranged, each characterizing the other not only as a political adversary, but also as devious, threatening, and essentially evil. According to William O. Beeman&...
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Migration Can Fall Apart: Life Stories from Voluntary and Deportee Return Migrants
by O. Alexander Miller Book News Annotation American sociologist Miller argues that pre-migration experience of immigrants can help construct theoretical perspectives on migrants who share a common ethnicity but have different migration and return migration experiences. He introduces the...
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Race Relations in the United States, 1940-1960 (Race Relations in the United States)
by Thomas J. Davis Publisher Comments The 1940s and 1950s were decades of far-reaching change and mobilization in the United States. White culture strove to make nonwhites invisible with segregation and discrimination as Southern blacks continued the Great Migration north and the government...
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Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America (American Politics and Political Economy)
by Brian Newman Publisher Comments Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and...
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The Treasury of Tabriz: The Great Il-Khanid Compendium
by A. A. Seyed-gohrab Publisher Comments A Treasury from Tabriz is a massive manuscript from 14th century Persia. It is almost perfectly preserved, and contains 209 works on a wide range of subjects, in Persian and Arabic. This collection of essays contains fourteen articles, each dealing with...
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A Casebook of Social Change in Developing Areas
by Arthur H. (edt) Niehoff
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Underground America (Voice of Witness)
by Peter Orner
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A Letter to My Father: Growing Up Filipina and American
by Helen Madam Mossman
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