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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition) by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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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 Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lipstick Jihad : Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (05 Edition) by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press) by Aristide R Zolberg Publisher Comments According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race by Scott L Malcomson Synopsis 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan Publisher Comments A kaleidoscopic view of new immigrants and refugees living in Queens, New York ? the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. For three years, Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan traveled the world by trekking the streets of their home borough... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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White Awareness by Judy H Katz Publisher Comments In efforts to deal with that pervasive disease racism, human relations practitioners have become increasingly convinced that the American form of the disease is most effectively treated as a White problem that severely damages its White victims, as... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Politics of Prejudice: Anti-Japanese Movement in California by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario Publisher Comments In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Gold Mountain by Lisa See Book News Annotation A family history tracing the route of the author's great- grandfather from his Chinese village to the United States, where he married a white woman and overcame the odds to become one of the richest Chinese people on "Gold Mountain," the Chinese name... (read more) Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas Synopsis Mining her rich Persian heritage with dry wit and a bold spirit, Firoozeh Dumas puts her own unique mark on the themes of family, community, and tradition. Explaining crossover cultural food fare, Dumas says, The weirdest American culinary marriage is... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond (Vintage Departures) by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments Here is a convincing, often exhilarating vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles from San Salvador to L.A. and that embraces cumbia and hip-hop, anarchists and Catholic priests. The Other Side describes a future that--for some of us--has already... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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