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by Paisley Rekdal  Publisher Comments Witty, original, and authentic. A fresh, young Chinese-American voice. --Adeline Yen Mah, author of Falling Leaves As the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley Rekdal grew up wondering where she fit in. The essays in this,... (read more)  List Price $22.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Antonio Santi Publisher Comments The witty and perceptive companion to Italian Pride--a beautiful gift book that celebrates the most notable figures and words to the wise from one of the world's richest cultures. Through their breathtaking art, exquisite cuisine, and unparalleled works... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ward Connerly Publisher Comments Ward Connerly first burst onto the American scene 1995 as the University of California Regent who had forced the largest public university in the country to become color-blind in its admissions policies. Connerly led the 1996 campaign to pass California... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $2.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Pulido Publisher Comments Environmentalism and Economic Justice spotlights another front in the ongoing wars over environmental issues, a front being fought by Chicano communities in the American Southwest. The book concentrates on struggles surrounding both the 1965-71 pesticide... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Lively Publisher Comments What is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $1.30 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Book News Annotation According to Stavans (Latin American and Latino culture, Amherst College), Luis Leal has, since his first publication in 1942, "done more than any other writer or scholar to foster the critical appreciation of Mexican and Chicano literature and was... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $25.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Barndt Publisher Comments An analysis of racism today and the thoughts on how we can work to bring it to an end.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Manuel G Gonzales Publisher Comments Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments “ A landmark study that explores with defiance and originality the convoluted Latino identity.”... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Randall Kennedy Publisher Comments Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant study -- ranging from plantation days to the present -- explores the historical... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Strausbaugh Publisher Comments A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race in America reveals our culture as neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular culture... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lydia Chavez Publisher Comments "The Color Bind" tells the story of how two unknown academics wrote Proposition 209 in 1992, thereby setting in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by K Connie Kang Publisher Comments I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amina Mohammed Arif Publisher Comments Although Islam and integration are frequently seen as antithetical concepts in much of Europe, the Muslims of the Indian sub-continent in the USA are an example of a population who have succeeded. This is in great measure due to their high levels of... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alicia Alarcon Publisher Comments In 1979, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portilla assured his compatriots that the prosperity of the petroleum boom would reach every corner of the Republic of Mexico. The mother of the narrator of the first passage in this collection asks, "Do you believe... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paula Giddings Publisher Comments Burning All Illusions is a collection from The Nation archives of the best writing on race and civil rights from the magazine's founding in 1865 to the present. It features selections by such insurgent American writers as Martin Luther King, Jr... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward James Olmos Synopsis This spirited bilingual book accomplishes a rare feat--through stirring photographs and rich text, it captures the full spectrum of Latino life in the United States. 230 color & b&w photos.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamar Jacoby Publisher Comments In this detailed history of relations between blacks and whites in the post-civil rights era, journalist Tamar Jacoby looks at how the ideal of integration has fared since it was first advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr., arguing that though blacks have... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Demott Publisher Comments In this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into believing that racial problems can be substantially mitigated, even vanquished,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Graf Williams Publisher Comments This revolutionary, easy-to-read book is designed to help immigrants transition into the American workplace and American culture. Geared to people new to America, this hook can help you develop independence and confidence with the social and cultural... (read more) List Price $26.70 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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