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by Louise L Larson  Publisher Comments Paperback reprint of a family memoir about an upper-middle-class Chinese American family from 1900-1950s., with a new Introduction by Shirley Hune (UCLA Graduate Division) and new Postscript by Jane Leung Larson, the author's daughter.... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Paula D Mcclain About the Author Paula D. McClain is professor of political science; and professor of law, public policy, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She also directs the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $1.55 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Publisher Comments Since 1999, the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project at the University of Texas at Austin has captured the untold stories of this WWII generation. Altogether, the project videotaped more than five hundred interviews throughout the country and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Jeong Trenka Publisher Comments An adoptee's search for identity takes her on a journey from Minnesota to Korea and back as she seeks to resolve the dualities that have long defined her life: Korean-born, American-raised, never fully belonging to either. For years, Korean adoptee Jane... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Dohan Publisher Comments This book examines the causes and consequences of poverty in contemporary Mexican-American urban neighborhoods using ethnographic descriptions of poor people's everyday lives.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.29 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vict Ortiz Gonzalez Publisher Comments A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city. Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of "borderlands"--and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the practical... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wanni W Anderson Publisher Comments Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of "Creative Nonfiction" explore the meanings of Italian-American identity. <BR>In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in "Our Roots Are Deep with Passion... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ricardo Romo Publisher Comments Ricardo Romo is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adela De La Torre Publisher Comments Immigration reform. Bilingual education. Affirmative action. Such issues trigger knee-jerk reactions from many people, and in California those reactions are likely to fall along strict ethnic lines. A white majority has long called the shots in voter... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by June Cross Publisher Comments In this poignant memoir and follow-up to Cross' Emmy Award-winning documentary, she deftly portrays the strains of a complicated family structure, ruptured by race, secrecy, and human fallibility.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James S Hirsch Publisher Comments A bestselling author investigates how the deadliest race riot of the 20th century erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, how it was covered up, and how its victims and their descendants are fighting for belated justice. Two 8-page photo inserts.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Percy C Hintzen Publisher Comments In the San Francisco Bay area, West Indians negotiate their identity within a system of race relations that is shaped by the social and political power of African Americans. By asserting their racial identity as black, West Indians make legal and... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geraldine A Ferraro Publisher Comments Framing a Life is Geraldine Ferraro's touching memoir of her Italian American family. Like the frame on which her mother once crocheted beads to make a living, Framing a Life draws together a tapestry of immigrant family stories both past and present... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Ecenbarger Publisher Comments A unique history-travelogue explores how the world's most famous boundary became embedded in the national psyche as a powerful racial symbol--and remains so to this day.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by M Elaine Mar Publisher Comments Chicken Bones and Mother's Milk My memory begins with the taste of chicken blood. Coaxed from the two-bone middle section of the wing, the crack of bone splintering between my teeth, the clotted marrow heavy on my tongue -- the memory of sweetness began... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This collection is a testimony of hope and endurance through the power of writing. The experience that unites us and that we want to share with you is the experience of exile, of belonging neither in Chile nor the United States: our experience of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy L Brooks Publisher Comments If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Ramos Publisher Comments From bestselling author and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current and future power of the Latino vote in American politics. The face of the American voter has changed dramatically. With the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Foley Publisher Comments A powerful, award-winning work of social history about race, class and labor in Texas from post-civil war to the Depression.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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