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by Peter Kwong  Publisher Comments "A gripping expose" (Publishers Weekly) of the conditions faced by Chinese illegal aliens in the United States.... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nick Trujillo Publisher Comments Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization.... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy J Meagher Publisher Comments Once seen as threats to mainstream society, Irish Americans have become an integral part of the American story. More than 40 million Americans claim Irish descent, and the culture and traditions of Ireland and Irish Americans have left an indelible mark... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mirta Ojito Publisher Comments Born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, the author was the one teenager among more than 100,000 fellow refugees. This is her vibrant memoir of life in Cuba and the wrenching departure.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ja Honigsberg Publisher Comments In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg -- a young, idealistic law student -- arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. Although he was based in New Orleans, most of his work was in the city of Bogalusa and in Plaquemines... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carey Mcwilliams Publisher Comments Carey McWilliams' North From Mexico, first published in 1949, is a classic survey of Chicano history that continues to have a major influence on studies of the Mexican-American experience today. Widely used in college courses on Chicano and Southwestern... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Flavia Alaya Publisher Comments Flavia Alaya was 22 years old, a radiant but sheltered Italian American on a Fulbright in Italy, when she met Father Harry Browne. When the attraction that began in a cafe in Perugia grew too compelling to resist, they embarked on a relationship that... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nora Louri Percival Publisher Comments From the perspective of the 21st century, the author looks back with a clear eye to the turbulent days following the Russian Revolution. Nora Percivals research illuminates her personal story, the story so many of us long to hear from grandparents who... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments A story of greed, hatred and jealousy centred around a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in China. Blamed for her mother's death, and ignored by both her father and her stepmother, she has written a story with the emotional force of a... (read more) Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rudy V Busto Publisher Comments "Right now we look like a cricket. What is a cricket? King of the Insects; a little, tiny animal. All the cricket can do is [say] 'cricket, cricket, cricket.' Just a noise, that's all. But you know, if that cricket gets in the ear of the lion and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Malkin Publisher Comments There were 19 hijackers aboard the planes that attacked America on September 11. This book reveals the shocking, true identity of the 20th hijacker.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Meena Alexander Publisher Comments Contents Overture Another Voice Piecmeal Shelters Piecemeal Shelters Art of Pariahs Language and Shame Alphabets of Flesh Passion Skin Song Whose House is This? House of a thousand Doors Hotel Alexandria Sidi Syed's Architecture Tangled Roots Poem by the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard J Franke Publisher Comments Accomplished businessman Richard J. Franke offers in Cut from Whole Cloth an intimate account of the American immigrant experience, recounting the moving story of his grandparents' struggle to build a new life in turn-of-the-century America. Franke... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Abelmann Publisher Comments No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew L Barlow Publisher Comments Written in a lively style, this book provides a structural analysis of race and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gilda L Ochoa Publisher Comments On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James M Freeman Publisher Comments The first-person narratives in this book provide a glimpse into the personal lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans who were devastated by war and the refugee experience but who were able to create new lives in a new cultural environment.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Derrick Bell Publisher Comments The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dale Maharidge Publisher Comments Some time after the year 2050, the population of the United States will be less than half white. In California, however, this seismic shift in demographics is due to take place before 2000. What happens in California, how the state chooses to adapt to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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