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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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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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Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture by Thy Phu Synopsis At the heart of the model minority myth—often associated with Asian Americans—is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues... (read more) List Price $86.50 Your price: $79.75 New - Hardcover
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Habitus of the Hood by Chris (edt) Richardson Publisher Comments Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the ’hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived—both within the... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States by John (edt) Tutino Publisher Comments Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship by Kristi Brian Synopsis Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian investigates the power dynamics at work between the white families... (read more) Your price: $82.50 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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Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Asian America) by Celine Parrenas Shimizu Publisher Comments Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness by George Yancy Synopsis Look, a White! returns the problem of whiteness to white people. Prompted by Eric Holder's charge, that as Americans, we are cowards when it comes to discussing the issue of race, noted philosopher George Yancy's essays map out a structure of whiteness.... (read more) Your price: $84.50 New - Hardcover
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Nikkei in the Interior West: Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882-1945 by Eric Walz Publisher Comments Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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No Matter What... They'll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly about Race Hurts Us All by Harry Stein Synopsis In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blessing La Pol?tica: The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States by Carlos (edt) Vargas-ramos Publisher Comments Blessing La Política: The Latino Religious Experience and Political Engagement in the United States presents a corrective challenge to the authoritative conclusion by the book Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics that Latinos are... (read more) Your price: $56.75 New - Hardcover
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Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World (Vintage) by Doug Saunders Publisher Comments A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today. For the first time in history,... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) by Gustavo Perez Firmat Publisher Comments An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author's own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the 1.5 Generation (Cubans... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream by Pawan Dhingra Publisher Comments Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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The Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels by Hipolito Acosta Publisher Comments Undercover agent for US I&NS and U.S. Border Patrol reveals his high stakes infiltration of immigrant smuggling rings and Mexican drug cartels.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Economic and Trade Policies in the Arab World: Employment, Poverty Reduction and Integration (Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Afr) by Mahmoud A. T. (edt) Elkhafif Publisher Comments The Arab Spring and recent popular uprisings that have taken place in many Arab countries since the end of 2010 highlight the urgent need for economic policy reorientation in these countries. This book addresses key issues relevant to the contemporary... (read more) Your price: $185.00 New - Hardcover
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The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements (Routledge Contemporary South Asia) by Farhan Hanif Siddiqi Publisher Comments In order to understand the Pakistani state and government 's treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operations in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were... (read more) Your price: $135.00 New - Hardcover
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Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots: Chinese Village Elections in Perspective (Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development) by Gunter Schubert Publisher Comments This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China s political system. It draws on comparative fieldwork conducted in six villages in two counties in Jiangxi and Jilin Provinces and one district in... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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