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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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The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 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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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 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: $10.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 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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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Charlotte Brooks Publisher Comments 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) List Price $50.95 Your price: $17.50 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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From This Wicked Patch of Dust (Camino del Sol) by Sergio Troncoso Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America by Daniel J Sharfstein Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London by Maritsa Poros Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis Rodriguez Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept by Michael Bonine Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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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) by Scott Kurashige Publisher Comments "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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under by Michael P Macdonald Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 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 $30.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Permit That Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands by Philip Garrison Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control by Abraham H Foxman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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