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Ethnic Studies
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 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 NonfictionWhen 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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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey 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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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne W Houston

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Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... (read more)

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Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
by David Bacon

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A veteran photojournalist explores the human side of globalization and argues for new ways to think about and legislate around immigration For two decades photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global... (read more)

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No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
by Justin Akers Chacon

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"A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."-Susan Faludi "[Davis'writing is] perceptive and rigorous."-David Montgomery, The Nation "[Davis'work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."-... (read more)

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Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
by William An Nericcio

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Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vé lez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses... (read more)

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Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History & Culture) Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History & Culture)
by David J Weber

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Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.... (read more)

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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
by Azadeh Moaveni

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A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist.... (read more)

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Black and White Styles in Conflict Black and White Styles in Conflict
by Thomas Kochman

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"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."—Marjorie Harness Goodwin... (read more)

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Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism! 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 Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
by David Bacon

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Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book... (read more)

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Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel (Asian Voices) Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel (Asian Voices)
by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn

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This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn... (read more)

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Stealing Buddha's Dinner Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen

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As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion... (read more)

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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11
by Geneive Abdo

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Islam is America's fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on... (read more)

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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie 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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Making of a Civil Rights Leader: Jose Angel Gutierrez Making of a Civil Rights Leader: Jose Angel Gutierrez
by Jose Ange Gutierrez

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Born in 1944, Jose Angel Gutierrez grew up in a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas and the Southwest attended separate schools and avoided public facilities and restaurants that were designated "Whites Only." Despite the limits of... (read more)

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Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Contemporary Issues) Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Contemporary Issues)
by Robert M Baird

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The kidnaping and beating death of a gay University of Wyoming student; the dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas, by advocates of "white pride" -- these two isolated incidents of violent crime occurred in 1998, not 1898, and are painful... (read more)

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Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class
by David R Roediger

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An extremely important and insightful book.... (read more)

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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
by James G Leyburn

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Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... (read more)

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They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration 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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