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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Open Media) Publisher Comments Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror: “[A] remarkable book.”—Noam Chomsky Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Live is a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding Fisher v. University of Texas, For Discrimination is at once the definitive reckoning with one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues and a principled work of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory by Dennis Smith Publisher Comments Growing up in the rough and tumble of New York City in the 1940s and 50s, Dennis Smith was dirt-poor, Irish Catholic and missing a father. Told in a first person narrative, this is a powerful odyssey of a young man coming of age in a confusing world.... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A country of strangers :blacks and whites in America by David K Shipler Publisher Comments A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $3.95 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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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez Publisher Comments Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a little-understood corner of America. Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy by Paul Apostolidis Publisher Comments In Breaks in the Chain, Paul Apostolidis investigates the personal life stories of a group of Mexican immigrant meatpackers who are at once typical and extraordinary. After crossing the border clandestinely and navigating the treacherous world of the... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $18.95 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 $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Racial Violence on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents by Christopher Waldrep Publisher Comments In this comprehensive overview of how the law has been used to combat racism, author Christopher Waldrep points out that the U.S. government has often promoted discrimination. A veritable history of civil rights, the story is told primarily through a... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of... by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone Publisher Comments With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10) by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon by Glenn Anthony May Publisher Comments With Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon, Glenn Anthony May makes a major contribution to the literature on Oregon and Chicano history. On one level a biography of Oregon's leading Chicano activist, the book also tells the broader story... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexican American Women Activists by Mary Pardo Publisher Comments The story of Mexican American women in two communities who took control and made a difference<P>When we see children playing in a supervised playground or hear about a school being renovated, we seldom wonder about who mobilized the community... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments A dramatic retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in a different mirror-from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves. Beginning with the colonization... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America by Ronald Takaki Publisher Comments From Different Shores presents essays written by neo-conservative, liberal, and leftist scholars on race and ethnicity in America. Among these scholars are: Nathan Glazer, Ron Takaki, Thomas Sowell, Robert Blauner, William Julius Wilson, and Charles... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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