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Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanon by Elmaz Abinader Publisher Comments In this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, Children of the Roojme is the story of a family from the mountains of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas by Silvia Spitta Publisher Comments When things move, things change. Starting from this deceptively simple premise, Silvia Spitta opens a fascinating window onto the profound displacements and transformations that have occurred over the six centuries since material objects and human... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration by Louis Mendoza Publisher Comments A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors, young writers, and undocumented workers. This outstanding collection captures the diverse voices of the new literature of American immigration. Bringing together... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook by Claudio Ivan Remeseira Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a mainstream and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination by Adalberto Aguirre Publisher Comments This brief text provides an accessible introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. After summarizing key concepts and theories, the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Kathleen A Staudt Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald Publisher Comments A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse by Jane Yolen Publisher Comments In Ekaterinoslav, award-winning author Jane Yolen writes about her father's family journey from a small shtetl in the Ukraine in the early part of the twentieth century, through the Ellis Island portal, to a home in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fault Lines (Cross-Cultural Memoir) by Meena Alexander Publisher Comments Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing Left in My Hands: The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942 by Kazuko Nakane Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. California History. A respected Japanese American historical text now back in print In 1978, Kazuko Nakane interviewed a number of immigrants from Japan who then lived in California's Pajaro Valley. Originally a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacon Publisher Comments “A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.”—Susan Faludi “[Davis’ writing is] perceptive and rigorous.”—David Montgomery, The Nation “[Davis’ work... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family by Joe Mozingo Publisher Comments “My dads family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mothers ancestors were from France and Sweden, but he heard only suspiciously vague stories about where his fathers family was from&#... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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How Race Is Lived in America by New York Times Publisher Comments Whether it's the merger of a white church with a black church in the South, the hip-hop dreams of a suburban white teenager, or the struggles of a biracial partnership in a high-tech start-up, race relations continue to permeate American lives. Powerful... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Asian Americans (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America) by Sucheng Chan Publisher Comments This series presents concise histories of individual ethnic groups and their impact on American life and culture. With comprehensive examinations of the immigrant experience, it serves as a resource for both young students and experienced researchers... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endangered Peoples of North America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (Greenwood Press "Endangered Peoples of the World) by Thomas Greaves Publisher Comments Bringing a fresh perspective to multicultural studies, Greaves illuminate the current situation of 13 traditional peoples in the United States and Canada. These are small tribal groups, ethnic groups with a unique way of life, new immigrants, and... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11 by Tram Nguyen Publisher Comments In an ironic reversal of the American dream, a staggering 20,000 members of the immigrant community of Midwood, Brooklyn (known as Little Pakistan), voluntarily left the United States after 9/11. Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mercy Factory by Christopher Einolf Publisher Comments Each year thousands of people come to the United States seeking protection more than 62,000 applied for asylum in 1998 alone. America is a country of immigrants with a proud tradition of welcoming refugees from persecution. Yet most Americans object to... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power by Phoebe Eng Publisher Comments Call it either a curse or a blessing. I was born in the Chinese year of the Tiger -- a year, it is said, that yields girls who grow up to be trouble. Welcome to the world of the modern Asian American woman, where the willingness to cause "trouble" -- to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction (American Philosophy) by Terrance Macmullan Publisher Comments Habits of Whiteness offers a new way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them. According to Terrance MacMullan, the concept of racial whiteness has undermined attempts to create a truly democratic society in the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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