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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side (Institutional Structures of Feeling)
by Jag Wojcicka Sharff  Publisher Comments This book chronicles an ethnographic team's involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Jagna Sharff focuses on a group of families who live within a radius of a few blocks of...
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Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City
by Augustin Lao-montes Publisher Comments A report on the state of Latino politics and culture in New York -- the most populous and diverse Latino city in the United States....
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The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
by Annette M Mahoney Book News Annotation Written by educators, researchers, and community leaders, ten articles address a range of issues relating to the health and social well-being of Caribbean immigrants in the United States. Some of the topics covered include increased infant mortality...
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Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948
by Louise London Publisher Comments Whitehall and the Jews is the most comprehensive study to date of the British response to the plight of European Jewry under Nazism. It contains the definitive account of immigration controls on the admission of refugee Jews, and reveals the doubts and...
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Mexicanos : a History of Mexicans in the United States (99 Edition)
by Manuel G. Gonzales Publisher Comments Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and...
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The Haemorrhage of Health Professionals from South Africa: Medical Opinions
by Wade Pendleton Publisher Comments This paper reports the results of a survey of health professionals in South Africa conducted in 2005-6 by SAMP. Since there is no single reliable database for all practicing health professionals, SAMP used the 29,000 strong database of MEDpages. All...
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Voices from the Margins: Migrant Women's Experiences in Southern Africa
by Kate Lefko-everett Synopsis One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in...
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Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity
by Clarence Page Publisher Comments The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such...
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Refugees in a Global Era
by Philip Marfleet Publisher Comments Refugees in a Global Era offers a topical and informative analysis of forced migration in the age of globalization, identifying mass displacement as an outcome of conflicts and contradictions in the global system. It looks critically at histories of...
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Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation
by Emory (edt) Elliott Publisher Comments The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating "globalization" from strictly economic considerations. The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including...
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American Crossroads #5: Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992
by Rachel Buff Publisher Comments A sophisticated study of finding "home" in America, through a comparison of Ojibwe Indian pow-wows in Minneapolis and West Indian Carnival steel drum festivals in Brooklyn. The main concern is how these migrants and immigrants, with very different racial,...
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Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls
by Rebecca Carroll Publisher Comments One of the most influential books ever published in this country, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk articulated many of black America’s thoughts and feelings. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the...
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Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (M.E.R.I. Special Studies)
by Alixa Naff Publisher Comments A unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society. Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking...
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Migrants Work and the Welfare State
by Book News Annotation Reporting the results of a research project by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany and the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Denmark, contributors examine the effects of immigration to those two countries on both the immigrants and the...
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Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community
by Gary Harwood Publisher Comments When photographer Gary Harwood first stepped onto the K. W. Zellers family farm in Hartville, Ohio, to take pictures of the Mexican migrant workers there, he did not expect to find such a strong, tightly knit community. Over the next five years he used...
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Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers
by Charlen Gilbert Publisher Comments A photographic essay which offers a striking and moving tribute to African-American farmers. This is the companion book to Gilbert's PBS documentary, HOMECOMING. Homecoming traces the history of black farmers from Reconstruction to the present, as they...
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China's Peasants
by Sulamith Heins Potter Publisher Comments This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution of 1949. The authors examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers...
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The German Element in the United States V2: With Special Reference To Its Political, Moral, Social and Educational Influence
by Albert Bernhardt Faust Synopsis In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly...
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American Dreaming, Global Realities : Rethinking U. S. Immigration History (06 Edition)
by Donna Gabaccia Publisher Comments An introduction to the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration history Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, American Dreaming, Global Realities explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children...
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Italians To America; Lists of Passengers Arriving At U.S. Ports, V.21: November 1902-march 1903.
by Ira A. Glazier And P. William Filby Book News Annotation Italians to America is the first indexed reference work devoted to Italian immigrants to the US. The series contains passenger list information of the first major wave of Italian migration during the last two decades of the 19th century and the...
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