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by David K Shipler  Publisher Comments A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Liu 
Publisher Comments Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Albany, New York My Mother's Music "I believe that the Japanese word for wife" "literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother. "During the nineteen twenties, when I was a child in Japan, my seventeen-year-old cousin... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.73 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki L Ruiz Publisher Comments An introduction to the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration history Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, American Dreaming, Global Realities explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, "Brown v. Board of Education," Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David R Roediger Publisher Comments At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Laufer Publisher Comments Peter Laufer's explosive proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border go far beyond President Bush's initiative to ease restrictions on immigration. Mr. Laufer argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open, with a free flow of people between the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nilda Chong Book News Annotation Written for mainstream managers, supervisors and employees who work with Latinos, this volume explores the nuances of Latino culture in the workplace. Chong and Baez, first-generation Latinas and human resources experts, discuss Latino values and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gloria Anzaldua Publisher Comments Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, Gloria Anzalda's work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Adle Hellman Publisher Comments By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families "Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cristina Igoa Publisher Comments 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) List Price $40.25 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gloria Anzaldua Publisher Comments Rooted in Gloria Anzalda's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Nevins Publisher Comments Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror: "[A] remarkable book."-Noam Chomsky Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Liveis a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and the rapidly growing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helie Lee Publisher Comments In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the family's history, as well as to understand the intricate weave of her own identity, results in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolaus Mills Publisher Comments This remarkakble collection of writings provides a wide diversity of answers to one of today's most emotionally charged questions. Spanning the whole political spectrum and covering issues from jobs and the economy to race and culture, it includes the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luis Hu Crosthwaite Publisher Comments The magazine "Traffic "got it wrong! The Border-with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units-is a lens into the future of the "new world economy." But it's misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pam Chun Publisher Comments In this stunning work, Pam Chun brings a new and powerful voice to the traditions of Chinese-American fiction. The Money Dragon brings to life the saga of L. Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, one of the legends of Hawaii and the founder of Honolulu's Chinatown.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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