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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
by Marie Rose Wong  Book News Annotation Around the turn of the 20th century and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second-largest Chinese population in the US. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatownsone an urban area of brick commercial structures, the other a...
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments “ The journey she takes us on… is fascinating, proving that stories are everywhere, even in the humble proverb.’...
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Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
by Tamar Jacoby Publisher Comments In this detailed history of relations between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era, journalist Tamar Jacoby looks at how the ideal of integration has fared since it was first advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr., arguing that though blacks have...
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
by John Phillip Santos Synopsis 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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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
by Marie Arana Publisher Comments In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply...
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Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturali
by David A Hollinger Publisher Comments Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...
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Long Way to Go: Black and White in America
by Jonathan Coleman Synopsis This "powerful and profound" ("Detroit News") seven-year exploration of race in America today has been praised for its "compelling storytelling" ("Seattle Post-Intelligencer") and its "superb" narrative ("Library Journal")....
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children
by Luis Alberto Urrea Synopsis Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from...
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Growing Up Asian American
by Maria Hong Publisher Comments Stories of childhood, adolescence and coming of age in America, from the 1800's to the 1900's -- by 32 Asian-American writers....
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured...
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Fire Next Time (63 Edition)
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing...
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The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays
by Bobby Eugene Wright Synopsis The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays presents a thought-provoking examination of the group personality of Europeans, as manifest in their behavior towards Black people. In the essay "The Psychopathic Racial Personality", Dr. Bobby Wright...
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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
by Shirley Abbott Publisher Comments 'In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meeting--a far cry from the magnolias and...
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Volcano :a memoir of Hawai°i
by Garrett Hongo Publisher Comments Garrett Hongo grew up with a profound sense of estrangement from his past: "Family secrets, evasions, and my own ignorance fed an anger and a desire to know that would not abate." Born in Hawai'i, raised in Los Angeles after the age of six, a fourth...
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In the Little World: A True Story of Dwarfs, Love, and Trouble
by John H Richardson Publisher Comments In 1997, almost by accident, John Richardson found himself sharing a hotel with more than a thousand dwarfs. Over the course of a single week, he begins relationships with some of the people at a convention that evolve into an affecting two-year-and...
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Racism 101
by Nikki Giovanni Publisher Comments In Racism 101, Nikki Giovanni indicts higher education for the inequities it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 1960s, provides a survival guide for black students on predominantly white campuses (complete with razor-sharp comebacks to the dumb...
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The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream
by Irene Kai 
Publisher Comments In The Golden Mountain, Irene Kai tells a deeply personal story of how she overcame cultural bias and a difficult mother to move from China to America and become an independent woman. The child of a loveless arranged marriage, Kai was born into a culture...
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Crossing Border Street
by Peter Ja Honigsberg Publisher Comments In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg--a young, idealistic law student--arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. Although based in New Orleans, most of his work was in the city of Bogalusa and in Plaquemines Parish...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first...
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Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
by Eric L Muller Publisher Comments In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, after stripping them of their livelihoods, liberty, and dignity, the government demanded even more by...
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