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Beyond the Narrow Gate
by Leslie Chang Synopsis Lifting the veils of secrecy that have so long hung over the "bamboo generation, " "Beyond the Narrow Gate" is the brave and moving story of four Chinese girls and their ultimate passage through the "narrow gate" in Communist China to America....
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Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women
by Patricia Pre Martin Book News Annotation In ten oral histories recorded by Martin, Mexican American women of the Southwest reach as far back as the turn of the century to recall family history and genealogy, secular and religious traditions, work and leisure, living conditions, and personal...
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Mama: Latina Daughters Celebrate Their Mothers
by Maria Perez Brown Publisher Comments Nothing comes close to the emotional bond that exists between a mother and her daughter. Through the fascinating personal histories of some of the most influential Latinas in America, Mamá is a testament to the love, hard work, and commitment Latina...
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Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation Among Asian Indian Immigrants
by Jean Bacon Publisher Comments Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a...
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Torn Between Two Cultures: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out (Capital Currents Book)
by Maryam Qudrat Aseel Publisher Comments An Afghan-American woman explores life in America as a Muslim, her Afghan heritage, and the future of Middle-East -US relations....
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Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification
by Carl Plasa Publisher Comments This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on postcolonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Frantz Fanon,...
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Atlas of American Diversity
by Larry Haj Shinagawa Publisher Comments The Atlas of American Diversity illustrates racial and ethnic variance in America today and probes the issues that affect diverse groups. Immigration and migration, socioeconomic status, health, crime, language, and politics are examined as they relate...
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Life in Italian America
by Maria Laurino Synopsis In this thoughtful, penetrating, and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity, journalist and essayist Maria Laurino mixes memoir, social and cultural history, and reporting, as she sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian...
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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism
by Jonathan Rieder Publisher Comments What accounts for the precarious state of liberalism in the mid 1980s? Why was the Republican Party able to steal away so many ethnic Democrats of modest means in recent presidential elections? Jonathan Rieder explores these questions in his powerful...
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Multi-culturalism (01 Edition)
by Longley Publisher Comments Two of Ireland's most outspoken critics and cultural commentators, Edna Longley from the North and Declan Kiberd from the South, put forward views on the contrasting directions in which the two societies on the island are moving. Professor Longley asks...
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Ten Thousand Sorrows the Extraordinary
by Elizabeth Kim Synopsis Not since "Angela's Ashes" has there been a story about childhood told with so much poignancy and triumph over the odds as Elizabeth Kim's harrowing memoir. A mixed-race bastard, Elizabeth witnessed the hanging murder of her mother in their small Korean...
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The New Color Line
by Paul Craig Roberts Synopsis In The New Color Line, authors Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton boldly challenge the affirmative action policies that have governed America for the past thirty years. The authors show that equality under the law has given way to legal...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Barnes & Noble C: An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship...
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Black Lives, White Lives
by Bob Blauner Publisher Comments One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it....
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The Bride Wore Red
by Robbie Clippe Sethi Synopsis The Bride Wore Red is a collection of short stories about an extended Indian family in the United States - cousins from New Delhi who marry European-Americans, and parents who come to live with them in suburban New Jersey and California. The stories are...
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Never Again?
by Abraham H Foxman Publisher Comments Anti-Semitism remains a pernicious form of ethnic and religious intolerance and an assault on the fundamentals of human dignity and human rights. Exploring the history of anti-Semitism and providing the first comprehensive examination of the new rampant...
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Ten Thousand Sorrows
by Elizabeth Kim Publisher Comments The autobiography of a Korean-American woman who has overcome traumatic childhood experiences, including witnessing her mother's murder and suffering prejudice in the US when she was adopted by fundamentalist Christians. "Elizabeth Kim writes with...
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Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle Between Blacks and Whites
by Paul L Wachtel Publisher Comments Internationally recognized psychologist Paul L. Wachtel sheds new light on the psychological foundations of our nation's racial impasse and applies his pathbreaking vicious circle approach to help resolve it. This timely and fascinating analysis shows...
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Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks & Whites
by Harlon Dalton Publisher Comments Racial Healing offers the prospect of open and harmonious relations between blacks and whites. When discussing race, Dalton suggests that blacks and whites "should simply put everything on the table. Own up to the tension. Acknowledge the risks". "Smart...
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A True Picture of Emigration
by Rebecca Burlent Publisher Comments On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western...
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