American Gulag
by Mark Dow


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The freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.... (read more)

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Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
by Michele Wucker


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We are essentially a nation of people who once belonged elsewhere, yet have long been deeply ambivalent about this part of our history. After World War I, the fear of the stranger overwhelmed America's confidence in our ability to create one nation out... (read more)

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Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home - A Memoir
by Lise Funderburg


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Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of... (read more)

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The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal
by Mark Krikorian


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New research reveals why America can no longer afford mass immigration Mark Krikorian has studied the trends and concluded that America must permanently reduce immigrationboth legal and illegalor face enormous problems in the near future. His argument is... (read more)

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Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
by Raoel Ramos


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Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Ral Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with... (read more)

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Unbound Feet: Social History of Chinese Women San Francisco
by Judy Yung


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The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these... (read more)

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La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecaudor and New York City
by Jason Pribilsky


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In this ethnographic study, carried out in a rural village of highland Ecuador and among Ecuadorian immigrants in Queens, New York, Pribilsky (anthropology, Whitman College) explores the role of gender identities on Ecuadorian men's public lives as... (read more)

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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
by Benson Tong


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"Unsubmissive Women" explores the lives of Chinese girls and women shipped to San Francisco in the 19th century and forced into prostitution. They maintained their will to alter their fate, survived subjugation, and quite often escaped to establish... (read more)

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Middle Eastern Lives in America (Joe Feagin)
by Amir B Marvasti


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Using data from in-depth interviews, this book brings to light the existence of Middle Easterners in America and shows the human complexity of their lives. This work gives special attention to how members of this ethnic group cope with, resist and combat... (read more)

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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith
by Anna Lisa Cox


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Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.... (read more)

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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White
by David R Roediger


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At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David Roediger is one of the most highly respected scholars in his field. He is also the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white... (read more)

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The Arab Americans: A History
by Greg Orfalea


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100+ years of the history of Arab Americans combines a historian's research with the vivid storytelling of a poet/novelist.... (read more)

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Unseen America: Photos and Stories by Workers
by Esther Cohen


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Through the lenses of do-nated cameras, this inspiring collection of photographs serves as a testimonial to the lives of people society often overlooks: the working class. They are everywhere -- the low-wage workers who make our clothes, look after our... (read more)

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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen


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As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion... (read more)

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Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War
by Christopher Sterba


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.... (read more)

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World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights
by Griswold Del Castill


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World War II marked a turning point for Mexican Americans that fundamentally changed their expectations about how they should be treated by the greater U.S. society. The experiences of fighting alongside white Americans in the military, as well as of... (read more)

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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11
by Geneive Abdo


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Gaining unprecedented access to Muslim communities in America, the author traveled across the country, visiting schools, mosques, Islamic centers, radio stations, and homes, and reveals a community tired of being judged by Americans' perceptions of... (read more)

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Social Crisis and Social Demoralization
by Ronald Kuykendall


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Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations provides an alternative perspective on American race relations - that race relations are status relations creating a series of behavioral consequences. Kuykendall... (read more)

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