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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... ( read more)
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
by Luis Rodriguez
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This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.... ( read more)
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... ( read more)
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The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
by Mary Pipher
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-[368] and index.... ( read more)
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Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Open Media)
by Joseph Nevins
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Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror: "[A] remarkable book."-Noam Chomsky Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Liveis a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and the rapidly growing... ( read more)
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Devil's Highway : True Story (04 Edition)
by Luis Alberto Urrea
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"Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able... ( read more)
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography
by Richard Rodriguez
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Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.... ( read more)
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael P Macdonald
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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)
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Enrique's Journey (06 Edition)
by Sonia Nazario
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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother... ( read more)
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Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism!
by Sacha Jenkins
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Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, this is a hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the absurdities of race relations is by the... ( read more)
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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family
by Margery Wolf
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An account of the many aspects of village life in China.... ( read more)
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Ask a Mexican
by Gustavo Arellano
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DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN! ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions... ( read more)
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They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky
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Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly... ( read more)
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
by Ruben Martinez
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The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing... ( read more)
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki
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A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.... ( read more)
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
by Eva Hoffman
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This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.... ( read more)
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Vintage)
by Eric Liu
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Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays... ( read more)
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Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (93 Edition)
by Louis Alberto Urrea
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A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border. Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty. Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid... ( read more)
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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
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A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, "All Souls" takes readers deep into MacDonalds Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but... ( read more)
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Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness
by John Jackson
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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)
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