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Journey of Hope, Memoirs of a Mexican Girl: an autobiography of an illegal immigrant girl from Guanajuato, Mexico who immigrated to Los Angeles, California, and eventually became an American Citizen Best Price: $11.65 What a story of survival and work ethic. The Epilogue was compelling. A must read. ...	Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China Best Price: $35.99 Slingerland is one of several scholars (R. T. Ames, S. Cook, PJ Ivanhoe, E. Molgaard, J. Paper,...	Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Asia's Transformations) Best Price: $35.63 This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the...	Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California Best Price: $18.95 I am not Portuguese but my husband is. If you are a woman of Portuguese descent or have married...	Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas (Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, V. 2) Best Price: $7.25 Robert Bringhurst devoted separate volumes to two great poets, Skaay (I'll leave out the lineage...



History of the Incas (Works Issued By the Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser., No. 22.) Best Price: $6.00 This translation of the work of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa is both riveting and detailed. As an...	Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy Best Price: $6.46 The guy who wrote the above review is obviously a jealous and insecure idiot who resorts to...	Who Is Black?: One Nation's Definition Best Price: $16.85 This is one of the best books I've ever read. Americans of all ethnic groups should read this,...	Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (American Crossroads , No 1) Best Price: $15.95 Through a diverse assortment of texts--fiction, poems, pop music, ethnography, art, and more,...	Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (Understanding (Boulder, Colo.).) Best Price: $11.00 I quote here the first and last sentence of the intro to chapter 6: "It would be an...



The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A CLASSIC WORK IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY Best Price: $17.08 This new, abridged edition of the classic five-volume work The Polish Peasant in Europe and...	A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories (Volume II) Best Price: $777.64 Everyone is familiar with the traditional Christmas stories that will be shared during this...	The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice: 1550-1670 Best Price: $36.00 A paperback edition of a much-acclaimed history of Europe's forgotten Inquisition. Venice in the...	Brown: The Last Discovery of America Best Price: $1.48 Richard Rodriguez is a very provocative thinker from a well thought out perspective that should...	Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physicians Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific : Culture, Politics, and) Best Price: $8.94 "Children of the Atomic Bomb" is a disturbing look into the after effects of the...

Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden Dr. Finch is a scholar whose work is well research and wonderfully written. I first ran across...	Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary Best Price: $59.99 Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. This reference work...	Hispanics in Hollywood Best Price: $13.06 By JONATHAN KIRSCH, Special to The LA Times ...	Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (Asia-Pacific.) Best Price: $24.53 Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural,...	Latino Metropolis (Globalization and Community, V. 7) Best Price: $18.00 This is a pathbreaking work in both urban theory and Chicano studies. The homeboy authors - who...

How Did You Get To Be Mexican Best Price: $24.49 This is an interesting book where the author relates his own life experience and all that he...	Latino Cultural Citizenship Best Price: $5.25 While much of the debate about Latinos in the US is shrouded by this country's obsession with...	The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistence in the 1990s (Race and Resistance) Best Price: $6.00 This was very much the first anthology that specifically addressed contemporary grass-roots...	Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader Best Price: $27.00 Although there have been a number of readers published in the growing field of Asian American...	The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture) Best Price: $26.12 In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to...

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture Best Price: $28.95 The essays in Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture chart the ways...	The Multi-cultural Southwest: A Reader Best Price: $24.95 My Southwest Studies class required this text, and I have to say that I think it is great. It is...	Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society Best Price: $19.00 Latino/a Thought is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings--especially from...	Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $19.95 Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more...	Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster Best Price: $97.78 Peter Brimelow brings a rapier like wit and razor sharp mind to bear on the desires of the left...

The Irish in America Best Price: $8.75 As a person of Irish descent, I was very happy to see "The Irish in America". This...	Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming the Spanish Image in American Culture Best Price: $11.91	Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches Best Price: $17.30 The best way to learn history is from the mouths of those who lived it, and enjoying the...	The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico Best Price: $21.21 Many books deal with New Mexico?s past, but the twelve original essays here reinterpret that...	Not by the Sword: How a Cantor and His Family Transformed a Klansman Best Price: $4.22 Micheal Weisser is the Cantor (and de facto Rabbi) of a congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska. He's...

The Natural Genesis (2 Volume Set) Best Price: $59.95 This along with his A Book of Beginnings and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World...	Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes Best Price: $15.95 "This is a very important book, in that it looks to the [racial] issues that are facing and...	China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom Best Price: $25.00 China Off Center takes as its fundamental assumption that contemporary China can only be...	American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory Best Price: $16.84 I found this book, in first edition and excellent condition, at the Oakland Library book sale. I...	Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools Best Price: $8.85 Tim Giago has provided a poignant look into a segment of American history that few know about...

They Had Stores...We Had Chores: A Town-Country Lexicon Best Price: $6.15	Race, Rights, And the Asian American Experience Best Price: $20.00 Why America Should See More than Black & White By Samuel R. Cacas Race, Rights & The...	Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance Best Price: $21.43 Diversity is a vaporous concept, widely embraced because it sounds good, seldom defined and used...	Mexican Americans and the Law: ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! (The Mexican American Experience) Best Price: $15.95 The experience of Mexican Americans in the United States has been marked by oppression at the...	Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans Best Price: $14.31 In this politically charged pc world, fueld by fear of illegal immigration from south of the...

The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii 1896-1910 Best Price: $20.95	The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia And the West Best Price: $24.71 In The Ambivalent Consumer, Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan bring together an array of...	UN/Settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglement, Transruptions Best Price: $21.80 This text is essential to understanding where society is in this "post-colonial" era....	Blue vs. Black: Let's End the Conflict Between Cops and Minorities Best Price: $3.83 I applaud John Burris' book, Blue VS Black. The book did not shock me, probably because I had...	Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today Best Price: $14.50 as a forever foreigner born in this country, i could identify with a lot of the stuff in the...

Asia-Pacific Strategic Relations: Seeking Convergent Security (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies) Best Price: $7.52 Arguing for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability, this overview of...	American Conversations (Puerto Rican Studies) Best Price: $17.95 In this book the author examines a Puerto Rican population and an Anglo-American population that...	Kakuma - Turkana, Dueling Struggles: Africa's Forgotten Peoples Best Price: $20.91 This is a wonderful book. I speny a good deal of time in Turkana in 2000 and this book truly...	The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty Best Price: $12.99 I bought this book to try to understand how tribal governments fit into our federal system. I...	Four Reigns Best Price: $16.15 I can only endorse the comments of other reviewers about this rather wonderful book. As a writer...

Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts Best Price: $399.99 The Quilt's of Gee's Bend exhibit was at the Corcoran in Washington DC earlier this year. I went...	Eyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) Best Price: $10.51 Names and stories about so called "Role Models" fall short in front of this personal...	Sailing for the Sun: The Chinese in Hawaii, 1789-1989 Best Price: $19.94	Doing Business in India Best Price: $36.51 This is an excellent book with lots of real life examples of failures and successes from the...

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