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by Gelareh Asayesh  Publisher Comments Gifted journalist Gelareh Asayesh writes indelibly of her struggle to balance an Iranian childhood with her adult life in America. A brave and beautifully written memoir that should be read by all who seek to understand Iran, America, or the divided life... (read more)  List Price $24.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Maria M Gillan Publisher Comments A moving collection of fiction featuring some of the nation's brightest voices on the complex and profound subject of race and ethnicity in America.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maria Laurino Synopsis In this thoughtful, penetrating, and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity, journalist and essayist Maria Laurino mixes memoir, social and cultural history, and reporting, as she sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Wayson Choy Publisher Comments From the author of the popular and widely acclaimed novel, The Jade Peony, comes this new autobiographical exploration of past and present, culture and selfhood, history and memory, immigration and family life--in other words, the modern-day collision of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki L. Ruiz Publisher Comments A comprehensive, historical encyclopedia that covers the full range of Latina economic, political, and cultural life in the United States.... (read more) List Price $325.00 Your price $125.00 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aihwa Ong Publisher Comments Buddha is Hiding tells the story of Southeast Asian refugees, dealing with various American institutions, learning about citizenship from the bottom up.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paula D Mcclain Publisher Comments Rodney King framed what might be called the enduring question of American politics from the Founding forward: “Can we all get along?” In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery, issues of liberty... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Manthia Diawara Publisher Comments Thirty years after leaving his native Mali, Manthia Diawara has a home in New York City, and more than a few acclaimed publications to his name. Still, he cannot shake the memories of his birth country-or of his first place of self-imposed exile: the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alphonso Pinkney Publisher Comments White Hate Crimes: Howard Beach and Other Racial Atrocities offers a timely examination of the barely discussed, but widely practiced phenomenon of white-on-Black Crime. Although the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s suggested a movement... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vickie Nam Publisher Comments Chapter OneOrientation: Finding the Way HomeThe day after my high school graduation, I boarded a plane. Next stop, Korea. My parents waved good-bye with nervous yet hopeful smiles, and my mom yelled,"Behave yourself!" like she always did when I was... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Haj Shinagawa Publisher Comments The Atlas of American Diversity illustrates racial and ethnic variance in America today and probes the issues that affect diverse groups. Immigration and migration, socioeconomic status, health, crime, language, and politics are examined as they relate... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Sumichrast Publisher Comments Escaping by boat in the middle of the night across the Danube, Mike Sumichrast had become a refugee -- determined to live his life with the same convictions he had before the war tore apart his homeland. This is his story of fighting the Nazis, fleeing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Esmeralda Santiago 
Publisher Comments The long-awaited new memoir by the author of When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman. A Merloyd Lawrence Book.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerre Mangione Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mari J Matsuda Publisher Comments Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Broughton Coburn Publisher Comments Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the 84-year-old woman to earn merit by making a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas J Haiducek Publisher Comments The Japanese educational system has become an object of growing dissatisfaction among Japanese students and parents, and some Japanese educators are looking at the American system of higher education as a model of a viable alternative. According to... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $11.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by H Raphael Hernandez Publisher Comments How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American Struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American Youth... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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