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by John Jackson  Publisher Comments The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking... (read more)  List Price $26.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Iris Chang Publisher Comments In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernestine Bradley Publisher Comments In this moving and candid memoir we meet Ernestine Bradley, the wife of former senator and presidential hopeful Bill Bradley. She stood out among Senate wives: a German-born lover of languages and a transplant to America, Ernestine had a full-time career... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Ridgeway Publisher Comments Updated to incorporate information on the Oklahoma City bombing and the militia movement, this in-depth study of the rise of white supremacists and religious fundamentalists traces the history of such movements, their tactics, and their impact.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pi Hondagneu Sotelo Publisher Comments The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce B Lawrence Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hector A Torres Synopsis Hector A. Torres conducted these interviews with today's popular Chicano/a writers, asking each about language and life between languages, about the creative drive that has guided them in their craft and commits them to their art. In sharing their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ashley J Tellis Publisher Comments Is it possible to know if regional ethnic conflict may erupt into brutal civil war? Better anticipation of such potential strife can lead to better preparation, such as Army training, equipping, doctrine, and deployment. The authors here provide a model... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard J Payne Publisher Comments In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, and dwelling on failure in race relations are not as... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Vartan Gregorian Publisher Comments In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world. Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan W Austin Publisher Comments Exploring racism and multiculturalism in WWII-era Japanese American student... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Americo Paredes Publisher Comments Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Trin Yarborough Publisher Comments Inspiring and sometimes tragic personal stories of five Amerasian children left behind after the Vietnam... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J D Hayworth Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging read, Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz) exposes the ongoing battle where terrorists seek ways to exploit America's porous borders and attack the country, as well as the hypocrisy, greed, and political correctness that could... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamar Jacoby Publisher Comments Nothing happening in America today will do more to affect our children's future than the wave of new immigrants flooding into the country, mostly from the developing world. Already, one in ten Americans is foreign-born, and if one counts their children... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.05 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William An Nericcio Publisher Comments Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vé lez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, "Brown v. Board of Education," Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Fr Jacobson Publisher Comments How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In "Barbarian Virtues," Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luis D Leon Publisher Comments Luis D. Leon's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helie Lee Publisher Comments In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the family's history, as well as to understand the intricate weave of her own identity, results in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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