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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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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Inner World Immigrant Child
Inner World Immigrant Child
by Cristina Igoa
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This powerful book tells the story of one teacher's odyssey to understand the inner world of immigrant children, and to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students' feelings and their needs. Featuring the voices and artwork of many... (read more)

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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story
by Frank Meeink and Jody M. Roy
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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over drugs and hatred. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate, while addiction made... (read more)

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Paper Daughter: A Memoir
Paper Daughter: A Memoir
by M Elaine Mar
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Chicken Bones and Mother's Milk My memory begins with the taste of chicken blood. Coaxed from the two-bone middle section of the wing, the crack of bone splintering between my teeth, the clotted marrow heavy on my tongue -- the memory of sweetness began... (read more)

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Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island-In Their Own Words
Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World Through Ellis Island-In Their Own Words
by David M Brownstone
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Between 1892 and the early 1950s, nearly 15 million people streamed through Ellis Island in search of a new life. Here are the stories of those extraordinary immigrants, largely in their own poignant words. Coming primarily from Southern and Eastern... (read more)

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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
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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Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
by Andrew Hacker
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Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more)

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Washington Papers #68: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
Washington Papers #68: America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
by Carlos Bulosan
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First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West... (read more)

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Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
by Rayya Elias
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“It is my honor to introduce these pages — so gravelly, so straggly, so hopeful, bright, and true.”  —Elizabeth Gilbert When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria... (read more)

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Chavez Ravine: 1949: A Los Angeles Story
Chavez Ravine: 1949: A Los Angeles Story
by Don Normark
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In 1949, photographer Don Normark walked up into the hills of Los Angeles, looking for a good view. Instead, he found ChC!vez Ravine, a ramshackle Mexican-American neighborhood tucked away in Elysian Park like a poor man's Shangri-la. Enchanted, he... (read more)

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Iranians in Texas: Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
Iranians in Texas: Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
by Mohsen M Mobasher
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Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978-1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the United States, where anti-Iranian sentiment flared as the hostage... (read more)

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The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California
The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California
by Martha Menchaca
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People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In... (read more)

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Enrique's Journey
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario
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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)

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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
by Mirta Ojito
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Finding Maandntilde;ana is a vibrant, moving memoir of one family's life in Cuba and their wrenching departure. Mirta Ojito was born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, one teenager... (read more)

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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing
Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing
by Ilan Stavans
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Immigration is the essential American story. From London or Lvov, Bombay or Beijing, Dublin or Dusseldorf, people have come to America to remake themselves, their lives, and their identities. Despite political obstacles, popular indifference, or... (read more)

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Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (93 Edition)
Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (93 Edition)
by Louis Alberto Urrea
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            Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border... (read more)

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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
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Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... (read more)

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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
by Victor Davis Hanson
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"Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California," writes Victor Davis Hanson, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of the state. Yet we Californians... (read more)

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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day
Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day
by Luis J Rodriguez
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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)

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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography
Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography
by Richard Rodriguez
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Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.... (read more)

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