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by Ronald Takaki  Synopsis From a Navajo code talker to a Tuskegee pilot, Takaki examines the many contributions and sacrifices of America's minorities--blacks, Chinese, Native Americans and others--during World War II. Photos.... (read more)  List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter M Coan Book News Annotation A compilation of moving firsthand accounts from 130 of the last surviving immigrants who came through Ellis Island's Golden Door. The entries range from the average citizen to the famous, including Otto Preminger, former New York City Mayor Abraham... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Houze Publisher Comments The author was 26 when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo were his sisters, left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country at the height of apartheid to start a new life in Mississippi, with Houze's American... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Feagin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275).... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.55 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Traise Yamamoto Publisher Comments This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather M Dalmage Publisher Comments This is the first book to critically look at the political issues and interests surrounding the broadly defined Multiracial Movement and at what is being said about multiracialism. Many of the multiracial family organizations that exist across the United... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Waldinger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-276) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.95 (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 $26.00 Your price $5.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Huping Ling Publisher Comments In 1857, Alla Lee, a 24yearold native of Ningbo, China, seeking a better life, came to St. Louis. A decade later, Lee was joined by several hundred of his countrymen from San Francisco and New York who were seeking jobs in mines and factories in and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Oscar J Martinez Publisher Comments The history of the United States in the twentieth century is inextricably entwined with that of people of Mexican origin. The twenty million Mexicans and Mexican Americans living in the U.S. today are predominantly a product of post-1900 growth, and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saskia Sassen Publisher Comments A penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the history of migration and refugees from a leading expert in the field.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamar Jacoby Publisher Comments In Reinventing the Melting Pot, twenty-one of the writers who have thought longest and hardest about immigration come together around a surprising consensus: yes, immigrant absorption still works-and given the number of newcomers arriving today, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Owen M Fiss Publisher Comments After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David E Lorey Publisher Comments The 2,000-mile-long international boundary between the United States and Mexico gives shape to a unique social, economic, and cultural entity. David Lorey here offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fascinating evolution of the region over the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Josephine Tsui Lee Publisher Comments Beginning in the late 19th century, Chinese immigrants arrived in New York City with hopes of more opportunity for better lives. Once confined to a few streets in downtown Manhattan, the Chinese people gradually moved throughout the city. Their rich... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Mcreynolds Synopsis Patricia Justiniani McReynolds was born of immigrant parents, a Filipino father and a Norwegian mother. She grew up in California when racism was institutionalized into the anti-miscegenation laws that denied the legitimacy of her parent's marriage, her... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Chavez Publisher Comments Are Hispanics making itachieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups? This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million His panicsfast becoming the nations largest minorityare a permanent underclass. Chavez considers... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Frymer Publisher Comments Paul Frymer argues provocatively that two-party competition in the United States leads to the marginalization of African Americans and the subversion of democracy. Scholars have long claimed that the need to win elections makes candidates, parties, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" explores the phenomenon of the Latina sweet 15 celebration. An enlightening and entertaining portrait of contemporary Latino culture, this title also takes a critical look at the social... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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