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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 Ann Berlak Publisher Comments When Sekani Moyenda, an African American elementary school teacher, accepted an invitation to speak at a graduate education class, neither the students nor Ann Berlak, their professor, could guess that her presentation would spark an outpouring of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David K Shipler Publisher Comments A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Ten Harmsel Publisher Comments Even though they are historically one of the smaller immigrant streams, nineteenth-century Dutch migrants and their descendents have made parts of West Michigan their own. The first Dutch in Michigan were religious dissenters whose commitment to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Ramos Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe BorderTijuana, Baja, California. It was cold, very cold. I was walking toward the border like a zombie, as if a magnet were pulling me to the other side and I had no will to resist. I was here, but I didn't really want to be here. Others... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sanford Pinsker Publisher Comments Race dominates the American agenda as few topics do, but it is a difficult subject to worry about publicly. The essays and reviews in Pinsker's collection focus on the need to sharpen our intellectual debate about race, to address the economic conditions... (read more) Your price $4.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Gildner Publisher Comments On Gary Gildner's eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner's grandmother Nelly quietly placed the book she had found her husband holding at his death in the coffin. "Always... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $11.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugo Hamilton Publisher Comments “ Never clichÉ d, thanks largely to Hamilton’ s frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhood… a beautiful memoir.”... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Fry Publisher Comments International praise for Michael Fry: "His range is striking, his breadth of interest amazing." - Times Literary Supplement "In all his prolific writings he brings a historian's depth to journalism and a journalist's popularism to history... frequently... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (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 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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher Comments The prize-winning book of advice about racism from the bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by Bill Cosby. <BR>When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wing Kai To Publisher Comments Chinese Americans in Boston trace their historical origins to pioneering settlements of merchants, workers, and students in different parts of New England. After the 1880s, hundreds of Chinese arrived in Boston. Beginning as a bachelor male &... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments "In Mexico," writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, " [the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport." While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katharine W Jones Publisher Comments In this look at the complexities of immigration, Accent on Privilege asks how race and class are constructed through the eyes of native and immigrant. Katharine Jones investigates how British immigrants live in the United States, and how their status as... (read more) List Price $69.50 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Akemi Kikumura Yano Publisher Comments The Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive guide to the history of Japanese immigrants in the western hemisphere. It is the story of the Nikkei (people of Japanese descent and their descendants) from early immigration to the present, as they... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Kim Synopsis Not since "Angela's Ashes" has there been a story about childhood told with so much poignancy and triumph over the odds as Elizabeth Kim's harrowing memoir. A mixed-race bastard, Elizabeth witnessed the hanging murder of her mother in their small Korean... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $1.74 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Craig Roberts Synopsis In The New Color Line, authors Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton boldly challenge the affirmative action policies that have governed America for the past thirty years. The authors show that equality under the law has given way to legal... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by M Elaine Mar Publisher Comments A heartfelt and poignant memoir about the quintessential struggle to fit in -- told with wit and triumph through the eyes of a poor Chinese immigrant girl who exists in two worlds, belongs to neither, and struggle desperately to reconcile her place in... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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