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by Michael Patrick MacDonald  Publisher Comments In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the normal life of... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Luis Hu Crosthwaite Publisher Comments The magazine "Traffic "got it wrong! The Border-with its frantic commerce in drugs, human beings, electronic gadgets, money and other economic units-is a lens into the future of the "new world economy." But it's misunderstood, disparaged, cheated and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. J. Lee Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. This lavish compendium looks at the Irish and America from a variety of perspectives. — USA Today For anyone with the slightest interest in the history of Irish immigrants in America, Lee and Casey... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie Arana Publisher Comments In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Rosen Publisher Comments The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood This is a tale of two communities that happened to be on Chicago's far South Side — but they could be almost anywhere in America. One was black, one was largely Jewish. They collided almost... (read more) List Price $18.90 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gustavo Arellano 
Publisher Comments DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Takaki
Publisher Comments In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lisa See Publisher Comments Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Norrell Publisher Comments An award-winning historian offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last 150 years in this scrupulously fair and insightful narrative which sheds new light on the ideologies, from white supremacy to black nationalism, that... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by bell hooks Publisher Comments While the black/Latino divide has been addressed in progressive newspapers and magazines, "Home Grown," is an inclusive call to reflect and act. Amalia Mesa-Bains, a pioneer scholar and producer of Chicana art, with bell hooks, one of the most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pam Chun Publisher Comments In this stunning work, Pam Chun brings a new and powerful voice to the traditions of Chinese-American fiction. The Money Dragon brings to life the saga of L. Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, one of the legends of Hawaii and the founder of Honolulu's Chinatown.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David B Mustard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-262) and index.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David R Roediger Publisher Comments David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In a lengthy new introduction, Rocdiger surveys recent scholarship on whiteness, and discusses the changing face of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Wu Publisher Comments Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Fredrickson Publisher Comments Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ursula Hegi Publisher Comments Brilliantly interviewed by bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, German Americans born in Germany during and immediately following World War II speak out about the legacy of grief and shame that continues to haunt them. Like Studs Terkel in his classic... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George E Curry Publisher Comments The Affirmative Action Debate collects the leading voices on all sides of this crucial dialogue. A provocative range of politicians, researchers, legal experts, and businesspeople dispute the best way to fight discrimination. Their essays explore such... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments Masumoto's philosophy about man and nature emerges in this absorbing chronicle of his life--from his search for roots in the internment camps and the rural culture of Japan to the joy he felt passing along his organic farming techniques to his children.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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