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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea
by Jane Trenka
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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)

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The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
by Reyna Grande
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Mago pointed to a spot on the dirt floor and reminded me that my umbilical cord was buried there. “That way,” Mami told the midwife, “no matter where life takes her, she won’t ever forget where she came from.” Then Mago... (read more)

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The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism
The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism
by Sven Lindqvist
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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)

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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing
Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing
by Ilan Stavans
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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)

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The Riots Signed Edition
The Riots Signed Edition
by Danielle Cadena Deulen
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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)

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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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ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an... (read more)

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The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami
by David Rieff
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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)

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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Charlotte Brooks
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Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California... (read more)

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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power
Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power
by Phoebe Eng
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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)

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From This Wicked Patch of Dust (Camino del Sol)
From This Wicked Patch of Dust (Camino del Sol)
by Sergio Troncoso
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Spanning four decades, this is a story of a family's struggle to become American and yet not be pulled apart by a maelstrom of cultural forces.... (read more)

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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America
The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America
by Daniel J Sharfstein
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andquot;An astonishingly detailed rendering of the variety and complexity of racial experience in an evolving national culture.andquot; -The New York Times Book Review In the Obama era, as Americans confront the enduring significance of race and... (read more)

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Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London
Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London
by Maritsa Poros
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Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical... (read more)

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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
by Luis Rodriguez
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Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. RodrÍguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long awaited... (read more)

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Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept
Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept
by Michael Bonine
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Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of... (read more)

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The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
by Scott Kurashige
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"Scott Kurashige shifts the urban history paradigm in this brilliantly triangulated account of African American and Japanese American resistance to white racism in Los Angeles."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians "Long in... (read more)

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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
by Paul Kivel
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Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers' best-seller list for five years, Uprooting Racism has sold over 25,000 copies since its first printing. Substantially revised and expanded, the new edition has more tools to help white people understand... (read more)

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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
by Michael P Macdonald
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This utterly unconventional narrative of reinvention begins with the young MacDonald's first forays outside the soul-crushing walls of Southie's Old Colony housing project. He provides one-of-a-kind 1980s social history and a powerful glimpse of what... (read more)

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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
by Marie Rose Wong
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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)

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The Permit That Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands
The Permit That Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands
by Philip Garrison
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There is a river, Garrison writes, that runs through the small town of Ellensburg, Washington, where he lives. It's a river of humanity, constantly moving north from Mexico. El flujo migratorio, he calls it. The migratory flow. Garrison's extraordinary... (read more)

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The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control
by Abraham H Foxman
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This is the definitive response to the rise of a new global anti-Semitism from the head of the Anti-Defamation League. Abraham Foxman delivers a powerful blow to such ideas as "The Israel Lobby" and shows how old stereotypes have taken subtle... (read more)

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