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A Chinaman's Chance
One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed...
The Morality of China in Africa
The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory essay from Stephen Chan, written in his usual elegant...
The Butterfly's Way
Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in...
God Grew Tired of Us
The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Story of a Lost Boy of Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name. Movingly written, the book traces Dau’s...
The Lost Boys of Sudan
An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan...
The Happiness of Blond People
A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Elif Shafak's examination of national identity.
"You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?"
"Yeah,"...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé...
by Sam Quinones
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A cult classic of a book from Mexico’s vital margins – stories of drag queens and Oaxacan Indian basketball players, popsicle makers and telenovela stars, migrants, farm workers, a slum boss, and a doomed tough guy.Sam Quinones - one of the great contemporary reporters out of Mexico, the border,...
When I Wear My Alligator Boots
Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought...
Talk Pidgin; Speak English: Go Local; Go American
The Japanese Immigrant Experience in Spreckelsville, Maui
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Deeply traditional in their thinking but inherently pragmatic by nature, Japanese immigrants in Hawaii were driven by conviction to unite under the mantra, "For the Sake of the Children!" to commit to raising their island-born children as full-fledged Americans irrevocably committed to America's highest ideals.
by R. M. Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable—between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them...
Quarterly Essay 13 Sending Them Home
Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine...
by Hamid Reza Yousefi
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In dieser biografischen Skizze zeichnet der Philosoph Hamid Reza Yousefi sein bewegtes und bewegendes Leben nach. Er erzählt von seiner ersten Heimat Iran, seiner Kindheit, von den Umständen, die ihn zum Verlassen seines Landes bewegten und seinem Migrantenschicksal in Deutschland. Besonders würdigt...
We Have Overcome
An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced...