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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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by Judy Yung Publisher Comments The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Wray Publisher Comments This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nyt Publisher Comments Whether it's the merger of a white church with a black church in the South, the hip-hop dreams of a suburban white teenager, or the struggles of a biracial partnership in a high-tech start-up, race relations continue to permeate American lives. Powerful... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $1.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Corrigan Publisher Comments Confessions of a Shanty Irishman is a memoir of an Irish family, but it is also a portrait of American life. It includes some of the icons of film and music, Brando and Presley.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Debra R. Shpigler Publisher Comments Whether you're a temporary resident of the United States or a legal immigrant, this valuable, information-packed guide explains all the steps necessary to become a U.S. citizen.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Carnoy Publisher Comments Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of why racial inequality changes in America.... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments In the early months of 1942, the United States government assembled and shipped off to concentration camps 112,000 men, women, and children -- the entire Japanese-American population of the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon, and an... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie T Hatamiya Publisher Comments This book is a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.20 (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 Madeleine Blais 
Publisher Comments In 1952, Madeleine Blais's father died suddenly, leaving his pregnant wife and their five young children to face their future alone. Uphill Walkers is the story of how the Blais family pulled together to survive and ultimately thrive in an era when a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Caledonia Kearns Publisher Comments The BonesetterCarolyn Curtin Alessio Until I was twelve, I considered my mother an ethnic renegade. She'd repudiated her Irish-immigrant parents in a single, flagrant act, by marrying a young engineer by the name of Sergio Antonio Alessio. My pride in my... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert S Chang Publisher Comments Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $17.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ayoung M Kim Publisher Comments This collection of essays and poems full of wit and honesty describes the journey of a granddaughter seeking acceptance, a daughter seeking reconciliation, and a woman seeking solace from a heavy heart. Fleeing a broken engagement and a family that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamim Ansary Publisher Comments A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ivan Light Publisher Comments A decade in preparation, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs" offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherri Grasmuck Publisher Comments Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. "Between... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Zia Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book traces the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups to a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. 13 photos.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolas Kanellos Book News Annotation This accessibly written volume presents 55 two-page biographies of prominent Hispanic Americans. Coverage includes such luminaries as Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez, astronaut Ellen Ochoa, singer Joan Baez, and labor organizer C... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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