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Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
by Ursula Hegi  Publisher Comments Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them. Like Studs Terkel in his classic...
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
by Juan Flores Publisher Comments Flores investigates the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in New York, reflecting their varied areas of cultural expression in the diaspora against the background of contemporary debates in Puerto Rico and recent developments in cultural theory...
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
by John Phillip Santos Publisher Comments In this beautifully wrought memoir, an award-winning writer weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the soul of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people....
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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...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Linda Brent Publisher Comments An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical...
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Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women about Mothers and Daughters
by Caledonia Kearns Publisher Comments The BonesetterCarolyn Curtin Alessio Until I was twelve, I considered my mother an ethnic renegade. She'd repudiated her Irish-immigrant parents in a single, flagrant act, by marrying a young engineer by the name of Sergio Antonio Alessio. My pride in my...
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Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, "Brown v. Board of Education," Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes...
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Memories of Chicano History: Life & Narrative of Bert Corona
by Mario T Garcia Publisher Comments Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience...
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The Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad (Dell Yearling Biography)
by Kate Mcmullan Publisher Comments From the time she was a small child, Harriet Tubman was forced to work in the fields and was treated badly by her owner. Finally, leaving her family behind, she ran away to the North, where she became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad —...
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Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother
by Helie Lee Publisher Comments In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the family's history, as well as to understand the intricate weave of her own identity, results in...
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The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami
by David Rieff Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "Going to Miami" presents an engrossing portrait of one of America's most successful immigrant groups: Miami's exiled Cubans, who have transformed the city from tourist town into a thriving, vital, unpredictable metropolis...
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The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
by Judith Ortiz Cofer Publisher Comments Cofer tells readers of the women's lives that entangled with hers in El Building in Patterson, New Jersey. A community transplanted from what they now view as an island paradise, these Puerto Rican families yearn for the colors and tastes of their...
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People of the Valley
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change....
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Honky
by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley's childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side makes Dalton's...
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Rosanna of the Amish
by Joseph Warren Yoder Publisher Comments The thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish Catholic baby girl, who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W. Yoder gives an honest, sympathetic, straightforward...
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Up From Slavery (95 Edition)
by Booker T. Washington Publisher Comments For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave...
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez 
Publisher Comments America is browning. As politicians, schoolteachers, and grandparents attempt to decipher what that might mean, Richard Rodriguez argues America has been brown from its inception, as he himself is. As a brown man, I think . . . (But do we really think...
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Arguing Immigration: The Controversy and Crisis Over the Future of Immigration in America
by Nicolaus Mills Publisher Comments This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole political spectrum and covering issues from jobs and the economy to race and culture, it includes the...
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Good Luck Life
by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant...
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The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford World's Classics)
by Friedrich Engels Publisher Comments This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights...
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