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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Warmth of Other Suns (10 Edition) by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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People on the Move: An Atlas of Migration by Russell King Publisher Comments Now, and in the past, migration has provided millions with an escape route from poverty, oppression, and conflict of all kinds. Through full-color maps, graphs, and photographs, People on the Move distills a vast amount of information as it explores the... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York by Suzana Maia Publisher Comments Life histories of women negotiating their identities between two... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York by Suzana Maia Publisher Comments Life histories of women negotiating their identities between two... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings by Steven W Bender Publisher Comments Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream:... (read more) Your price: $39.00 New - Hardcover
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Immigrant America (3RD 07 Edition) by Alejandro Portes Publisher Comments This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Impossible Subjects by Mae M. Ngai Publisher Comments This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Immigrants and Right To Stay (10 Edition) by Joseph H. Carens Publisher Comments The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States a path to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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Road To Wigan Pier (58 Edition) by George Orwell Publisher Comments In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization by Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh Synopsis The Accidental American vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario Publisher Comments In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Chicano Popular Culture : Que Hable El Pueblo (01 Edition) by Charles M. Tatum Publisher Comments Over the past several decades, Mexican Americans have made an indelible mark on American culture through the music of bands such as Santana and Los Lobos, films such as Zoot Suit, and a wide range of literature, such as Sandra Cisneros's The House on... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whiteness of a Different Color : European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (98 Edition) by Matthew Frye Jacobson Publisher Comments America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Open Media) by Tim Wise Publisher Comments "Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people's favor. . . . His candor is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Colonizer and the Colonized (91 Edition) by Albert Memmi Publisher Comments First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks Publisher Comments Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Leo R Chavez Publisher Comments One of the few case studies of undocumented immigrants available, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants... (read more) List Price $67.50 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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