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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 Patricia J Williams Publisher Comments Williams, a regular columnist for "The Nation", frequent guest on "The NewsHour", and contributor to "The New York Times" "op-ed" page, here discusses the racism of liberals, of well-intentioned people. In the current social and political climate, in... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Min Zhou Publisher Comments Contemporary Asian America is the first volume to integrate a broad range of multi-disciplinary research on the ways in which the intersection of Asian immigration, community development, and socialization affect Asian American communities. It exposes... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret E Dorsey Publisher Comments A uniquely Tejano version of the old-fashioned political barbeque, the traditional South Texas pachanga allowed politicians to connect with voters in a relaxed setting where all could enjoy live music and abundant food and drink along with political... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald D Jaynes Publisher Comments The real and potential impact of immigration policy decisions on African Americans is profound. Yet policy makers today lack systematic knowledge of crucial social, political, and economic issues relating to the formulation of wise immigration policies... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernestine Bradley Publisher Comments In this moving and candid memoir we meet Ernestine Bradley, the wife of former senator and presidential hopeful Bill Bradley. She stood out among Senate wives: a German-born lover of languages and a transplant to America, Ernestine had a full-time career... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Davar Ardalan Publisher Comments Drawing on her remarkable personal history, a National Public Radio producer brings readers the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution in America and Iran.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by G W Gonzalez Publisher Comments Pinnick Kinnick Hill: An American Story is now available in softcover, complete with facing-page English/Spanish translation, a format that recalls the balance required to keep ethnic identities alive. A hundred years ago, dozens of families journeyed... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Edley Publisher Comments Rejecting simplistic arguments for and against affirmative action, Christopher Edley, Jr., offers here a spirited, cogent analysis of one of the most vexing and contended issues in politics today. As point man for the White House review of affirmative... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Kessner Review "These are powerful and stirring tales about ordinary people who are surmounting extraordinary obstacles to gain access to a better life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness."--Daniel Patrick Moynihan "Excellent."--Linda C. Johnson, Monterey... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $2.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan O Kownslar Publisher Comments "The European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Bacon Publisher Comments This is a journalistic chronicle of contemporary labor wars and organizing on the United States/Mexican border. Based on gripping firsthand reports, this book investigates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on those who labor in the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pyong Gap Min Publisher Comments In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Wong Publisher Comments Oakland's Chinatown has a history every bit as compelling as its more famous neighbor across San Francisco Bay. Chinese have been a presence in Oakland since the 1850s, bringing with them a rich and complex tradition that survived legalized... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lise Funderburg Publisher Comments Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Martinez Publisher Comments This is the story of a remarkable woman whose artistic mission was to relate Mexican cultural history to English-language readers. A world-renowned playwright in the 1930s and best-selling novelist in the 1940s, Josefina Niggli published at a time when... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lillian Gong Guy Publisher Comments The fertile Santa Clara Valley—once called the Valley of Heart's Delight and later Silicon Valley—has long been home to a substantial Chinese population. Like other immigrants, they arrived seeking opportunity and armed with survival... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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