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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)
by Lauren Kessler
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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... ( read more)
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Al' America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
by Jonathan Curiel
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From surf music to the ice cream cone—a lively and eye-opening look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America, by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist. "In 1960, a Pittsburgh couple hosting a visiting Muslim student from... ( read more)
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie Chang
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T.... ( read more)
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What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America
by Ariela J. Gross
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Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was... ( read more)
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Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy, & Society South of the Sahara #04: Africa Yearbook 4: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2007
by Andreas (edt) Mehler
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The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states all related to developments in one calendar year.... ( read more)
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The American Irish: A History
by Jay P Dolan
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A history of the Irish in America from the eighteenth century to the present, by one of the nation's most eminent scholars of the immigrant experience. Jay Dolan of the University of Notre Dame is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration... ( read more)
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Immigration and the Transformation of Europe
by Craig A. (edt) Parsons
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A new kind of historic transformation is underway in twenty-first-century Europe. Twentieth-century Europeans were no strangers to social, economic and political change, but their major challenges focused mainly on the intra-European construction of... ( read more)
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The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
by Karin Evans
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In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese... ( read more)
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The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are
by Andrew Cohen
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The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized... ( read more)
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Exodus/Exodo
by Charles Bowden
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Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work... ( read more)
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Twisted Head: An Italian-American Memoir
by Carl Capotorto
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What's in a name? For Carl Capotorto, everything is in a name. The literal translation from Italian to English of Capotorto is twisted head. This is no accident. Carl grew up in the Bronx in the 1960s and '70s with the Mangialardis (eat fat) and Mrs... ( read more)
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Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow
by John Howard
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Without trial and without due process, the United States government locked up nearly all of those citizens and longtime residents who were of Japanese descent during World War II. Ten concentration camps were set up across the country to confine... ( read more)
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The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World (New Directions in Latino American Culture)
by Ruth (edt) Behar
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Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted... ( read more)
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The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power
by Michael Liu
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This text reinterprets a misunderstood epoch of the Asian American experiencethe Asian American movement (AAM). The authors address the AAM's dramatic impact on the direction of Asian American political and social activity beginning in the 1960s... ( read more)
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The Colonial 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662 (Tanap Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interactio)
by Chiu Hsin-hui
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Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early modern era.... ( read more)
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From Out of the Shadows 10TH Edition
by Vicki Ruiz
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From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced... ( read more)
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Community Cohesion: A New Framework for Race and Diversity
by Ted Cantle
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This timely study examines the historical approach to race and diversity and suggests that equality strategies have been a vital, but limited, means of addressing discrimination and community tensions. Community Cohesion, it argues, offers a new... ( read more)
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
by Peter Orner
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Underground America tells the stories of men and women who have come to the United States seeking a better life for their families, only to be subjected to dehumanizing working conditions. Supporting myriad industries, these workers form an essential... ( read more)
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Racism (Beginner's Guides)
by Alana Lentin
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Despite the fact that we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces... ( read more)
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Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey
by Jacqueline Ma Hagan
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Since the arrival of the Puritans, various religious groups, including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and Protestant sects, have migrated to the United States. The role of religion in motivating their migration and shaping their settlement experiences has... ( read more)
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