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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition)
by Firoozeh Dumas
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... ( read more)
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)
by Lauren Kessler
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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... ( read more)
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... ( read more)
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Lipstick Jihad : Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (05 Edition)
by Azadeh Moaveni
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A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist.... ( read more)
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One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
by Scott L Malcomson
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In this provocative history of our nation's most distinctive and enduring drama, Malcomson offers a way to move forward from our obsession with race. From Puritan enslavement of Indians to the dramas of separatism we enact daily in schools and... ( read more)
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From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America
by Steven V Roberts
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New York Times bestselling author Steven V. Roberts follows the stories of thirteen families in this poignant, eye-opening look at immigration in America today. America is a nation of immigrants. But what does it mean to be an immigrant in the United... ( read more)
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West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
by Tamim Ansary
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The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions. Born to an Afghan father and American mother... ( read more)
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
by Paul Kivel
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Highlights the many ways in which concerned white people can play an active role in confronting white racism, and helps the reader understand racism and explore its manifestations in politics, work, community, and family life. The book suggests ways for... ( read more)
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... ( read more)
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Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin, But the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity
by Katya Gibel Azoulay
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How do adult children of interracial parents--where one parent is Jewish and one is Black--think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay's Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child... ( read more)
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Politics of Prejudice: Anti-Japanese Movement in California
by Roger Daniels
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This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States. "The Politics of Prejudice" details the political... ( read more)
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Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
by Hector Tobar
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar takes us on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States — a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented... ( read more)
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by Lisa See
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Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and... ( read more)
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Honky
by Dalton Conley
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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... ( read more)
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez
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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... ( read more)
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The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
by Rinku Sen and Fekkak Mamdouh
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The Accidental American vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates... ( read more)
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A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories
by Alia Malek
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Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the... ( read more)
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Borderlands/La Frontera
by Gloria Anzaldua
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Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, Gloria Anzalda's work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics... ( read more)
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Burning All Illusions: Writings from the Nation on Race
by Paula Giddings
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Burning All Illusions is a collection from The Nation archives of the best writing on race and civil rights from the magazine's founding in 1865 to the present. It features selections by such insurgent American writers as Martin Luther King, Jr... ( read more)
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Race and Culture: A World View
by Thomas Sowell
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Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization.... ( read more)
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