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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish-America by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden first realized he was "Irish on the inside" when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing "We Shall Overcome" in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden?s parents erased... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gringa Latina :a woman of two worlds by Gabriell De Ferrari Publisher Comments For the readers of Laura Esquivel and Isabelle Allende, this memoir of a girlhood in Peru is seen from the very different vantage point of an adulthood in the United States. Gabriella De Ferrari, the author of the acclaimed novel A Cloud on Sand, grew up... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arellano Publisher Comments DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Last Witnesses Reflect Wartime Intermen by Erica Harth Publisher Comments Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent (two thirds of them American citizens) one question remains unresolved: "Could it happen... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City by James R Barrett Publisher Comments A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No Matter What... They'll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly about Race Hurts Us All by Harry Stein Synopsis In the Age of Obama, the ugly charge of racism is more prevalent than ever. Why? Because telling the truth about racial profiling, crime, the social fallout of single parent homes, and the ways racial preferences distort the very meaning of equity and... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Jamaican School by Hyacinth Evans Publisher Comments Hyacinth Evans's detailed case study of a Jamaican high school, formerly known as a junior secondary high school, breaks new ground. Her research demonstrates the continuing education problem encountered by students and teachers in a two-tiered... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments Advance praise for The History of White People: “Deeply researched, intelligent, and wonderfully common-sensical, this is a ground-breaking book, and if we’re ever going to get to that so- called ‘post-racial’ society, a necessary... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds by Karl E Meyer Publisher Comments In a world replete with stories of sectarian violence, we are often left wondering: Are there places where people of different ethnicities, especially with significant Muslim minorities, live in peace? If so, why havent we heard more about them, and what... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments Hailed as "compelling" by The Washington Post and "stunningly honest" by The San Francisco Chronicle, this memoir has hit bestseller lists and earned critical praise from coast to coast. Rebecca Walker was born in 1969 to author Alice Walker and lawyer... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing by Kathleen Alcala Publisher Comments My parents always told me I was Mexican. I was Mexican because they were Mexican. This was sometimes modified to “Mexican American,” since I was born in California, and thus automatically a U.S. citizen. But, my parents said, this, too, was... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America (Vintage) by Roberto Suro Publisher Comments Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States by Hector Tobar Publisher Comments 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 and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. SILENT DANCING combines poetry and prose to form an innovative and deeply personal narrative that explores Judith Ortiz Cofer's memories of her childhood spent between Puerto Rico and New Jersey. Winner of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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