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Framework for Immigration : Applications To Asians in the United States (02 Edition) by Uma Segal Publisher Comments Segal analyzes Asian immigration to the U.S., including immigrants' reasons for leaving their countries, their attraction to the U.S., the issues they face in contemporary U.S. society, and the history of public attitudes and policy toward them.... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race From Seoul To La (08 Edition) by Nadia Y. Kim Publisher Comments Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. Imperial Citizens uses a global framework to investigate how Asians... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu Publisher Comments In the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, law professor, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith by Nikki A Toyama Publisher Comments Asian American women are caught between different worlds. Many grew up sensing that daughters were not as valuable as sons. Family expectations and cultural stereotypes assume that Asian American women can only have certain prescribed roles, as if our... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Us, Hawai'i-Born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community by Gaku Kinoshita Publisher Comments This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i. Investigating their plantation stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives... (read more) Your price: $165.50 New - Hardcover
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Fault Lines (Cross-Cultural Memoir) by Meena Alexander Publisher Comments Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing Left in My Hands: The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942 by Kazuko Nakane Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. California History. A respected Japanese American historical text now back in print In 1978, Kazuko Nakane interviewed a number of immigrants from Japan who then lived in California's Pajaro Valley. Originally a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation by Darrell Y Hamamoto Publisher Comments A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (Interact Series) by L Robert Kohls Publisher Comments Perhaps more than any other East Asian country, Korea adheres to the traditional collectivist and Confucian traits of harmony, hierarchy, status and proper behavior. In Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to LIving and Working in Korea, Robert Kohls... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pure Beauty : Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (06 Edition) by Rebecca Chiyoko King-o'riain Publisher Comments With a low rate of immigration and a high rate of interracial marriage, Japanese Americans today compose the Asian ethnic group with the largest proportion of mixed-race members. Within Japanese American communities, increased participation by mixed-race... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Asian American Elders in Twenty-first.. (09 Edition) by Mui Publisher Comments Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $38.00 Used - Hardcover
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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Catherine Ceni Choy Publisher Comments In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rethinking the Asian American Movement (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century) by Daryl Joji Maeda Publisher Comments Although it is one of the least-known social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian American movement drew upon some of the most powerful currents of the era, and had a wide-ranging impact on the political landscape of Asian America, and more... (read more) Your price: $136.00 New - Hardcover
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Woman Warrior, China Men (05 Edition) by Kingston Publisher Comments The Everymans Library 100 Essentials brings together a selection of 100 of the bestselling titles from the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the worlds greatest works. An enduring hardcover library of classic and contemporary works... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Private Life Under Socialism : Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (03 Edition) by Yunxiang Yan Publisher Comments “The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas by Wanni W Anderson Synopsis Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor by Priya Srinivasan Synopsis A groundbreaking book that seeks to understand dance as labor, Sweating Saris examines dancers not just as aesthetic bodies but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues. &... (read more) Your price: $74.50 New - Hardcover
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China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas (05 Edition) by Tun-jen Cheng Publisher Comments The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects... (read more) List Price $151.50 Your price: $111.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) by Diana Meyers Bahr Publisher Comments An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Herfamily by Helie Lee Publisher Comments A breathtaking true story of a rescue mission undertaken by a young woman and her family in one of the most repressive countries in the world. Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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