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by Maureen Dezell  Publisher Comments A dazzling and bracingly honest look at a great people in a great land. For many people in this country, Irish American culture conjures up thoughts of raucous pubs, St. Patrick's Day parades, memoirs peopled with an array of saints and sinners, and such... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Samuel Walker Publisher Comments The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. How did this free speech... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Oreffice Publisher Comments The United States is the land of opportunity and a society unique in the history of the world. It is only in America that an immigrant could create a new life. Only in America could someone arrive speaking fewer than fifty words of English and work... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amir B Marvasti Publisher Comments Using data from in-depth interviews, this book brings to light the existence of Middle Easterners in America and shows the human complexity of their lives. This work gives special attention to how members of this ethnic group cope with, resist and combat... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George E Curry Publisher Comments The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymonde Carroll Publisher Comments Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Heidenreich Synopsis The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans P Vought Publisher Comments Between 1897 and 1933 the presidents of the United States joined progressive reformers in redefining the concept of the United States as a "melting pot." Their use of this metaphor to describe assimilation never meant that immigrants had to completely... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Norrell Publisher Comments In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years. This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Kuykendall Publisher Comments Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations provides an alternative perspective on American race relations - that race relations are status relations creating a series of behavioral consequences. Kuykendall... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $2.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward I Koch Publisher Comments For more than three decades, Ed Koch has been one of America’s most interesting and outspoken political figures. In this provocative new book, Koch with Rafael Medoff guides readers through the major battles in his life-long fight... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephan Thernstrom Publisher Comments In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African-Americans. Supporting their... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Monroy Publisher Comments This is a sweeping study of the making of Mexican Los Angeles from around 1910 to the 1940s, one of the most dramatic and historically vibrant periods in the history of Los Angeles and its Mexican communitites.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Raybon Publisher Comments Renowned African American journalist Patricia Raybon comes face-to-face with her own race-driven instincts and past in this powerful book that is part journal, part memoir, part social commentary. In a brave and elegant narrative that owes much to the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments For almost twenty years, llan Stavans-described by the Washington Post as "Latin American's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"--has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media. As host... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Fred Whitehead Publisher Comments In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner, two young German men, arrived in America on the same ship. Each man sold himself into servitude to a different master, and, years later, each wrote a memoir of his experiences, leaving invaluable... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Livio Sansone Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Irons Publisher Comments "Justice at War" irrevocably alters the reader's perception of one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history--the internment during World War II of American citizens of Japanese descent. Peter Irons' exhaustive research has uncovered a government... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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