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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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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: $14.97 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $16.25 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life by Rupinder Gill Publisher Comments A memoir of a young woman, the product of a strict upbringing by conservative Indian parents, who decides to go on a Ram-Singha, her Indian version of the rumspringa, and learns how to dance, swim, drive, travel, and play in order to be happy. Rupinder... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $23.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez Publisher Comments Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a little-understood corner of America. Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 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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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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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 $16.25 Your price: $3.95 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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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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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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Burro Genius: A Memoir by Victor Villasenor Publisher Comments Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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American Gypsy: A Memoir by Oksana Marafioti Publisher Comments A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming American Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in “the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism (U.S. History in International Perspective) by George Fredrickson Publisher Comments One of the world's leading historians of race relations, George Fredrickson in his newest book probes the history of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and other parts of the world. Diverse Nations explores recent interpretations of slavery... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $6.50 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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Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America by Ed Farber Publisher Comments During the course of American history, scientific theories have been used to legitimate racial ideas that in turn have been important in creating and interpreting the law. Race and Science collects essays from leading voices in law, history, history of... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries by Huping Ling Publisher Comments The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $6.50 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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