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by Annette M Mahoney  Book News Annotation Written by educators, researchers, and community leaders, ten articles address a range of issues relating to the health and social well-being of Caribbean immigrants in the United States. Some of the topics covered include increased infant mortality... (read more)  List Price $49.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Rachel Buff Publisher Comments A sophisticated study of finding "home" in America, through a comparison of Ojibwe Indian pow-wows in Minneapolis and West Indian Carnival steel drum festivals in Brooklyn. The main concern is how these migrants and immigrants, with very different racial,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter H. Schuck Publisher Comments Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens, an integrated series of fourteen essays, Yale professor Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces that have been unleashed by unprecedented legal and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Celente 
Publisher Comments One recent spring Gerald Celente went to visit his cuddly eighty-three-year-old Italian aunt, Zizi, in Yonkers, New York. He was expecting the same delectable combination of food, friendship, and motherly love that Zizi had served up through the years at... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments In 35 years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, this is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those Lynch calls "... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicolas Kanellos Publisher Comments In this controversial and highly readable book, Nicolas Kanellos chronicles and analyzes the changing images of Hispanics in the United States from the period of exploration and conquest to the present, reclaiming Hispanic heritage in American History.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dirk Eldredge Publisher Comments Eldredge examines America's growing immigration crisis.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Lynn Heyck Publisher Comments b /b b i Barrios and Borderlands /i /b paints a portrait of the complex and fascinating mixture of Latino cultures in the United States today. This unique anthology embraces a broad range of genres, disciplines and ethnicities. It highlights the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mira Kamdar Publisher Comments "From the Bible to the Odyssey to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the journey or quest has been a staple motif of Western literature. Motiba's Tattoos is a welcome addition to that list." (The Washington Post) Mira Kamdar was born in the United States... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rebecca Morales Synopsis The 1980s were not good economic times for Latinos in the United States. The contributors to Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy examine the cause of this phenomenon and the long-term consequences for the Hispanic population. How much, they wonder, can be... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clarence Page Publisher Comments The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wesley Brown Publisher Comments Thirty-six noted contemporary writers respond to a hundred years of American life from perspectives of "semi-otherness." A classroom classic. The personal narratives in this rich and diverse collection--companion to the story collection Imagining... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John R Chavez Publisher Comments A fascinating intellectual history of Hispano self-perception, this book traces the changes in Hispano views of the Southwest form earliest times to the present, particularly since the 1848 signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marce Suarez Orozco Publisher Comments Probing the themes of transnationalism, race, gender, and class, this pathbreaking volume by a group of eminent scholars provides the most incisive and comprehensive look to date at what every citizen needs to know about the Latino experience in the... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James A. Banks Synopsis In the eleven essays that make up this book, written over a 13-year period, Professor Banks describes how schools can both educate students to participate effectively in a society that reflects ethnic and cultural diversity and also promote national... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Williams Publisher Comments ""Playing the Race Card" possesses all the boldness, high intelligence, and far-reaching revisionism one has come to expect from the author of the brilliant "Hard Core" and other path-breaking work in film studies. Linda Williams here insists on the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nora Faires and Nancy Hanflik Publisher Comments Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005 combines an examination of the evolution of a small ethnic and religious community with analysis of the dramatic rise and decline of an industrial boomtown. In both popular accounts and scholarly... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawson Fusao Inada Publisher Comments Surprising in both its emotional and intellectual range, Only What We Could Carry brings us intimate voices that express not only fear and anger, but humor, compassion, and self-doubt. Family photographs and original works of art add a visual record of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorn Brondal Publisher Comments "Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics investigates the notion of ethnic identity as it relates to Scandinavian Americans and political affiliations in Wisconsin, from 1890-1914. Jorn Brondal traces the evolution of their political alliances as they... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $16.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Wray Publisher Comments White trash, The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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