Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility
by Christine So
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Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and...
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Stewing in the Melting Pot: The Memoir of a Real American
by Robert Sanabria
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This memoir of a Mexican-American who grew up in a Depression era orphanage reminds us why the great "melting pot" concept did not work....
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Conversations with Ilan Stavans (La Plaza)
by Ilan Stavans
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For almost twenty years, llan Stavans-described by the Washington Post as "Latin American's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"--has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media. As host...
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American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
by Eric L Muller
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From the author of "Free to Die for Their Country" comes the story of the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in 1942, and the administrative tribunals that had been designed to pass judgment on those suspected of being disloyal....
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The Challenge of Diversity
by Walter Johnson
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Drawing on his experience as a social scientist, Walter Johnson outlines some of the challenges posed by the increasing ethno-cultural diversity of North American society through an examination of immigration history, immigration policy, and the hot...
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of...
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer
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Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from over 300 communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the...
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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....
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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America
by Jiannbin Lee Shiao
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Diversity has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in...
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On the Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border
by Chad Richardson
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The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rapid population growth, the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. The region has the highest rate of...
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Beyond the Narrow Gate
by Leslie Chang
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Lifting the veils of secrecy that have so long hung over the "bamboo generation, " "Beyond the Narrow Gate" is the brave and moving story of four Chinese girls and their ultimate passage through the "narrow gate" in Communist China to America....
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America
by Jack Marshall
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"ÝMarshall¨ understands that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art."-"San Francisco Chronicle" <P>"Born in Brooklyn of Arabic/Jewish heritage, Marshall may represent the keynote, most...
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Diasporas
by Stephane Dufoix
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Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and professionals, even engineers working abroad. This concise, lucidly...
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