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New Arrivals
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Immigration
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
by Luis Alberto Urrea
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"In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more)

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General
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Pact : Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream (02 Edition)
Pact : Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream (02 Edition)
by Sampson Davis
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Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each... (read more)

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Hispanic American
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The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism & Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism & Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
by Mark Simon Rodriguez
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Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during the 1960s and 1970s. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the... (read more)

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Asian American
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie T. Chang
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls... (read more)

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Latin American
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Gringa Latina :a woman of two worlds
Gringa Latina :a woman of two worlds
by Gabriell De Ferrari
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For the readers of Laura Esquivel and Isabelle Allende, this memoir of a girlhood in Peru is seen from the very different vantage point of an adulthood in the United States. Gabriella De Ferrari, the author of the acclaimed novel A Cloud on Sand, grew up... (read more)

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Racism and Ethnic Conflict
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Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities (03 Edition)
Race in the Schoolyard : Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities (03 Edition)
by Amanda E. Lewis
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.... (read more)

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Japanese American
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Last Witnesses Reflect Wartime Intermen
Last Witnesses Reflect Wartime Intermen
by Erica Harth
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Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: "Could it happen... (read more)

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Irish American
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
by James R Barrett
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A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series... (read more)

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Sale Books
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The Riots Signed Edition
The Riots Signed Edition
by Danielle Cadena Deulen
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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)

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Used Books
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Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Jamaican School
Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Jamaican School
by Hyacinth Evans
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Hyacinth Evans's detailed case study of a Jamaican high school, formerly known as a junior secondary high school, breaks new ground. Her research demonstrates the continuing education problem encountered by students and teachers in a two-tiered... (read more)

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