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by Josephine Hendin  Publisher Comments Josephine Gattuso Hendin captures the New York Italian immigrant scene with startling precision, bringing to life the intricate web of a community's everyday transactions and exploring the multifaceted father-daughter relationship at the heart of the... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Schmidt Publisher Comments What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how: * colleges use affirmative action to mask how... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Masayo Duus Publisher Comments A dramatic tale of how a little-remembered strike in Hawaii fanned the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and, the author argues, ultimately led to the infamous Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $6.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hayley A Hamilton Publisher Comments Because of the stress of migration, one might expect the health and behavior of foreign-born youth to be worse than that of native-born youth. However, Hamilton's examination of the mental health, physical health, and deviant behavior of first-, second-,... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Viner Publisher Comments Viner traveled to various Eastern European countries to interview women of all ages and circumstances who are willing to do anything to get to America. The revealing and often unsettling tales of these women, told in their own words, shine a light on a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel F Detzner Publisher Comments Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn Publisher Comments This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robbie Clippe Sethi Publisher Comments These thirteen linked stories are framed by the experiences of Sally, an American doctor and Deshi, her Indian husband, whose two cousins follow his example and refect their arranged marriages for American brides.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hyung-Chan Kim Publisher Comments Filling an important gap in scholarship, this unique historical dictionary recounts the experience of immigrants from more than ten countries in East and Southeast Asia and assesses the cultural, social, economic, and political impact of these groups on... (read more) List Price $109.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kyoko Mori Publisher Comments "POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint."<BR>--The Wall Street Journal<BR>In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tiffany Ana Lopez Publisher Comments A collection of stories of coming-of-age in America from such accomplished Chicana/o writers as Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Marta Salinas, Gary Soto and others.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Coleman Book News Annotation An analysis of race relations in America using Milwaukee as a window on the rest of the nation. The author of the bestsellers At Mother's Request and Exit the Rainmaker uses interviews, diaries, letters, and his own experiences as a reporter to assess... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie V Tischauser Publisher Comments Race relations in the 1920s ranged from an epidemic of lynchings of African Americans, race riots, and the execution of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti to citizenship for American Indians but not for Mexican immigrants. As the 1930s unfolded, there... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott L Malcomson Publisher Comments Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson's search for an answer took him across the country--to the Cherokee... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vijay Agnew Book News Annotation In introducing a dozen chapters by Canadian scholars, Agnew (social science/Centre for Feminist Research, York U., Toronto) overviews the social construction of racism and relates her experience of being an East Asian immigrant in Canada embracing yet... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Pfaelzer Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Gill Straub Publisher Comments U·X ·L(r)announces a 2nd edition of its New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book," U·X ·L(r)Asian American Reference Library." Rich with photos and completely revised and updated through 2002, with five new primary source documents and 60... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Alland Publisher Comments One of the only books to critique race as a biological category.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Oliva M Espin Publisher Comments A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espín’s previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Espín’s... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David R Maciel Book News Annotation Summarizes developments made by Chinese mathematicians on the subjects since the 1950s. Offers survey articles and recent research results on such topics as Hopf algebra, representation theory, semigroups, infinite groups, homological algebra, module... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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