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Hispanic Self-Employment in the Southwest: Rising Above the Threshold of Poverty (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)
by Virginia Zuiker  Publisher Comments Self-employment is an option that has been considered a viable economic alternative for minority populations facing barriers to gainful employment in the traditional wage and salary labor market in the U.S. This book examines whether self-employment is...
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Garland Reference Library of the Humanities #2117: Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities
by David W. Foster Publisher Comments This collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining the parameters...
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Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture
by W. K. Mcneil Book News Annotation A compilation of articles and essays from the past 130 years on the character and spirit of Appalachian culture, organized according to four major periods in the awareness of Appalachian culture. Essays covering Kentucky feuds, moonshining, handcrafts,...
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East European Monograph #588: Polish Political Emigres in the United States of America: 1831-1864
by Florian Stasik Publisher Comments This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in...
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From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia (Suny Series in Italian/American Culture)
by Stefano Luconi Book News Annotation Analyzes the process by which people of Italian descent renegotiated their sense of community and ethnic self-perception in Philadelphia from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Luconi (history, U. of Florence) describes the time...
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New Immigration
by Marcelo M. (edt) Suarez-orozco Publisher Comments At the turn of the millennium, the United States has the largest number of immigrants in its history. As a consequence, immigration has emerged once again as a subject of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. This volume brings together the dominant...
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Italians to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports #11: Italians to America, Volume 11 June 1897-May 1898: List of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports
by P. William Filby Publisher Comments Italians to America is the first indexed reference work devoted to Italian immigrants to the United States. This series contains passenger list information in chronological order on the first major wave of Italian migration during the last two decades of...
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Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives
by Ernesto Sagas Publisher Comments Political and economic hardships have led over one million Dominicans to leave their homeland and settle in foreign countries--the United States, Spain, Venezuela, and other countries in Latin America and Europe. In essays covering subjects from politics...
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The Hmong Refugee Experience in the United States: Crossing the River (Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics)
by Ines Miyares Publisher Comments "Cross the river, take off your shoes, <BR>Flee from your country, take off your status."-Hmong Proverb <BR>This book examines the experience of the Hmong people whose lives and culture were completely transformed by the covert war in Laos...
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Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany
by Joel S. Fetzer Publisher Comments This book explores the causes of public opposition to immigration in three industrialized Western countries....
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Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest #21: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999
by Jorge Iber Publisher Comments Drawing upon his deep knowledge of Ezra Pound's life and work, William Cookson provides introductory background material to each canto and a detailed, page-by-page commentary identifying quotations, explaining allusions and cross references, and...
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Portraits of Basques in the New World
by Richard W. Etulain and Jeronima Echeverria Publisher Comments Leading scholars and Basque specialists provide a fascinating overview of Basque experiences throughout the American Far West and Mexico....
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American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination
by Adalberto, Jr. Aguirre Publisher Comments This brief and inexpensive text provides a concise introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each...
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The Black Grapevine: Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations
by Linda Briskman Publisher Comments The Black Grapevine tells the extraordinary story of Indigenous efforts to stop children from becoming part of the "stolen generations" and to end the government policies and practices which destroyed their families. Linda Briskman uses the story of the...
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Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France
by Tony Chafer Publisher Comments Challenging the notion that there was no "popular imperialism" in France, this book examines the importance of France's colonial role in the development of French society and culture after 1870. It assesses the impact of colonial propaganda on public...
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The Vietnamese Americans (New Americans)
by Hien Duc Do Publisher Comments Vietnamese first came to the United States as refugees in the 1970s, after the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese Americans, written by a former Vietnamese refugee, is the only in-depth resource especially for students and general readers with a solid...
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Latinos Unidos: From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity: From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity (Critical Perspectives Series)
by Enrique T Trueba Publisher Comments Latinos Unidos presents an unexpected perspective on Latinos-not only as a highly diverse and rapidly growing population in the United States with distinct social, cultural, and economic features-but as a new political force with a cohesive collective...
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Reflexiones 1999: New Directions in Mexican American Studies (Distributed for the Center for Mexican American Studies)
by Richard R. Flores Publisher Comments Established in 1970, the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is a national leader in teaching, research, and publications in Chicano studies. Reflexiones, its annual review, highlights work in progress by scholars...
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Studies in Urban and Social Change #10: Eurostars and Eurocities
by Adrian Favell Publisher Comments Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five...
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From Immigration Controls to Welfare Controls
by Steve Cohen Publisher Comments This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls. It considers the implications for the both those subject to controls and those drawn into...
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