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Cover of The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
by Anand Giridharadas
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

"Gives you new eyes on your nation, makes you wonder about both the recent South Asian immigrant behind the counter at the food mart and the tattooed white man behind you in line. It reminds you that there are some Americas where mercy flows freely, and other Americas where it has turned to ice."...
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When Your Voice Tastes Like Home

Immigrant Women Write

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003

The women arrive here from everywhere -- Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. They come from diverse traditions, cultures and histories. They speak a world of languages. This collection features the writing of women who have come to North America in se
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Chop Suey, USA

The Story of Chinese Food in America

by Yong Chen
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese...
Cover of Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
by Sam Quinones
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015

This is journalist Sam Quinones' classic collection of nonfiction tales about Mexican immigrants, the border, and more.A dazzling follow-up to his cult classic, True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx.The stories begin with a tale that could have...
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The Colonias Reader

Economy, Housing and Public Health in U.S.-Mexico Border Colonias

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016

The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching...
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Underground America

Narratives of Undocumented Lives

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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men...
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The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport

Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

by Tyche Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling...
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Mobilizing against Inequality

Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism

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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
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The New Americans

How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

by Michael Barone
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

Many Americans feel swamped by immigrants with alien cultures, languages, and customs apparently flooding into our country.
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Our 50-State Border Crisis

How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America

by Howard G. Buffett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.** Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across...
Cover of Multicultural Citizenship : A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
by Will Kymlicka
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures.It argues that...
Cover of The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories out of the Caribbean
by Christine Chivallon, Antoinette Titus-Tidjani Alou (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States – the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still...
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by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic...
Cover of Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story of the Refugee Crisis
by Pietro Bartolo, Lidia Tilotta
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

“Tears of Salt… reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man.” —Adele Annesi, Washington Independent Review of Books Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first...
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