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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism by Phyllis Goldstein Publisher Comments A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we,... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition) by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity (08 Edition) by Steven W. Bender Publisher Comments Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction at the 2008 Oregon Book Awards. See link below for more information Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family by K Connie Kang Publisher Comments I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race by Scott L Malcomson Publisher Comments Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson's search for an answer took him across the country--to the Cherokee... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $2.99 Used - Hardcover
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