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by Evelyn Nakano Glenn  Publisher Comments Although unique in many ways, the situation of the Japanese American woman has important parallels with that of other women of colour in the United States. Ironically her role as a domestic cast her in a menial, degraded job but often elevated her to the... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Garrett Hongo Publisher Comments Garrett Hongo grew up with a profound sense of estrangement from his past: "Family secrets, evasions, and my own ignorance fed an anger and a desire to know that would not abate." Born in Hawai'i, raised in Los Angeles after the age of six, a fourth... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Mazer Publisher Comments This nonfiction companion to last year's highly acclaimed fiction anthology America Street includes 14 autobiographical narratives about growing up in the crucible of America's diverse society. Whether triumphant, poignant, or chilling, lit by humor or... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vicki L Ruiz Publisher Comments For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Ange Gutierrez Publisher Comments Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano community organization in the barrios of Cristal. The rumor in the town was that five Mexican Americans were... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert S Newman Publisher Comments Reflecting today's more personalized and openly contentious environment surrounding pluralism and diversity, this innovative anthology links autobiographical and argumentative writing in case-study fashion in order to explore the pros and cons of issues... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $4.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Waters Publisher Comments One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael P Macdonald 
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Mcbride Publisher Comments James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. The object of McBride's constant embarrassment and continuous fear for her... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Gomez Quinones Publisher Comments How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Publisher Comments When Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was seventeen years old, she and her family were evacuated from their home on Vashon Island, Washington, and sent to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. Along with nearly 120,000 other people of Japanese ancestry... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roberto Suro Publisher Comments Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliche-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Prager Publisher Comments In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lorane A West Publisher Comments Color presents a tapestry of poignant conversations with people who have come from various Central and South American cultures and backgrounds, all with the common thread of speaking the Spanish language. Their professions range from attorney to school... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments America's foremost oral historian tackles the most difficult and complicated issue in America today -- race relations -- by interviewing nearly a hundred blacks and whites. The result is a riveting and deeply moving -- and frequently provocative -- look... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael K Brown Publisher Comments This work underscores the resilience of racial discrimination in the United States and the catastrophic effects of the backlash against minorities (with the demise of affirmative action and other civil rights era social programs) in contemporary America.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Mura Publisher Comments A journal of discovery by a poet and third-generation Japanese-American who explores the sense of difference that haunts him both at home and in Japan.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol M Swain Publisher Comments These candid interviews with white nationalists allow a better understanding of this threat to integration.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chad Richardson Publisher Comments The Valley of South Texas, a recent joke goes, is a great place to live. It's so close to the United States. Culturally, this borderland region is both Mexican and Anglo-American, and its people span the full spectrum, from a minority who wish to remain... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Patchen Publisher Comments This text provides a comprehensive overview of relevant theory and evidence to help students understand the processes and outcomes of ethnic diversity. Rather than describing a succession of specific ethnic groups, the focus is on the general forces and... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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