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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 Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by David Rieff Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "Going to Miami" presents an engrossing portrait of one of America's most successful immigrant groups: Miami's exiled Cubans, who have transformed the city from tourist town into a thriving, vital, unpredictable metropolis... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments When the body of a black teenager is found in the St. Joseph's River, unhealed wounds and suspicions surface between two Michigan towns. Beautifully written and painstakingly reported, "The Other Side of the River" sensitively portrays the lives and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Immigration is the essential American story. From London or Lvov, Bombay or Beijing, Dublin or Dusseldorf, people have come to America to remake themselves, their lives, and their identities. Despite political obstacles, popular indifference, or... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism by Sven Lindqvist Publisher Comments A Swedish author of internationally acclaimed books on Africa, China, and Latin America profiles more than twenty men and women who, while not themselves victims of racism, went againt the temper of the time to expose the many faces of prejudice. Well... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Madam Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter by Mari-Luci Jaramillo Publisher Comments Fiction. MADAME AMBASSADOR: THE SHOEMAKER'S DAUGHTER is the story of a life of success beyond all expectations. A child of poor immigrants dreams of a wonderful life of noble purpose and service to others and achieves it despite doubts, fears and lack of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe Publisher Comments Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. We meet the girls on the eve of their senior prom in Denver, Colorado. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Riots Signed Edition by Danielle Cadena Deulen Publisher Comments Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen’s artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez Publisher Comments Within the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The new immigrants have ignited a vibrant Latin explosion in popular culture and deeply affected American society. Spanning 500 years-from the first New World... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea by Jane Trenka Publisher Comments The powerful second memoir by the author of the widely acclaimed The Language of Blood made in Korea > cheap goods > cheap labor > cheap womb > cheap adoption > cheap immigration > cheap immigrant > cheap yellow daughter >... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev Publisher Comments Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-329) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hechinger's Field Guide to Ethnic Stereotypes by Kevin Hechinger Publisher Comments Can you differentiate between the Amish and the Hasidic Jew? Do you know the single, shocking difference between the Redneck and the Appalachian? Can you successfully identify -- and avoid -- the Charismatic, Verbose Nigerian Cabdriver or the Honda... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 by Geneive Abdo Publisher Comments Islam is Americas fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror?... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Running for All the Right Reasons: A Saudi-Born Woman's Pursuit of Democracy (Arab American Writing) by Ferial Masry Book News Annotation Masry was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and educated in Egypt. She received a master's degree from California Lutheran U., and has taught government and history at a Los Angeles high school since 1999. In 2004, she became the first Saudi American to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power by Phoebe Eng Publisher Comments Welcome to the world of the modern Asian American woman, where the willingness to cause "trouble" -- to stir the waters, think deeply, and go against what is expected -- is the first of many steps to self-discovery and power. Now, Phoebe Eng shatters... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Judy Yung and Erika Lee Publisher Comments From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong Publisher Comments Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story by Frank Meeink and Jody M. Roy Publisher Comments Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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