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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
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Christopher Caldwell
Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighborhoods have forced Europeans to confront the limits of their long-held liberal values. Caldwell reports that by underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution.
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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Luis Alberto Urrea
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds.
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
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Juan Gonzalez
Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westward expansion in America, this narrative features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland.
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Rise & Fall of the British Empire
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Lawrence James
A comprehensive account of Britain's imperial experience, by an acclaimed Scottish historian. James describes Britain's rise to international dominance as a naval power, and shows how control of the seas--considered essential for the protection of the island nation's sovereignty and commerce--led inevitably to the establishment of trading posts ...
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From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
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Joan Peters
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The wretched of the earth
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Frantz Fanon
This canonical text on colonialism, history, and the role of violence in each has been influential world-wide--especially in Latin America, where it was required reading for revolutionary movements, and in the United States, where it was a major text for the Black Panther Party. It is also a standard text in universities. Jean Paul Sartre's ...
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The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
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Mary Pipher
Over the past decade, Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping readers to better understand their family members. Now she connects readers with the newest members of the American family--refugees.
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A Small Place
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Jamaica Kincaid
Kincaid's powerful, angry essay on the effects of colonialism and tourism on the people of the Caribbean.
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Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants
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Ted Conover
The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States.
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Enrique's Journey
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Sonia Nazario
A "Los Angeles Times" journalist offers her 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning story in book form--a timely account of a young Honduran boy's perilous quest to reunite with his mother in the United States. Includes 16-page color photo insert. Young Adult.
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
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Patrick J Buchanan
Third-party Presidential candidate and television talking head Pat Buchanan predicts doom for Western life as he knows it. Citing demographics, he sees a threat to Europe and America from large waves of immigrants that have already changed the racial composition, and he criticizes liberal influences and values as harbingers and facilitators of ...
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Nation of Immigrants
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John F Kennedy
Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, people who deserve the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This modern edition of his posthumously ...
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Discourse on Colonialism
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Aime Cesaire, Joan Pinkham, Robin D G Kelley (Foreword by)
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil ...
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society
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Leo R Chavez
This anthropological analysis of undocumented US immigrants aims to humanize a group of people often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants' own voices while the author's voice raises questions about power, stereotypes, settlement, and incorporation into American society. This ...
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans
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John Hope Franklin
This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ...
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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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Victor Davis Hanson
This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century.
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Black Bourgeoisie
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Edward Franklin Frazier
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Immigrant America: A Portrait
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Professor Alejandro Portes, Ruben G Rumbaut
This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the entire text with new information and added a vivid array of new vignettes and illustrations. ...
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African perspectives on colonialism
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A Adu Boahen
"Contradict[s] the extraordinary myth that Africa 'has no history.' Boahen is one of the pioneers in the school of African historiography." -- Times Literary Supplement
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Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools
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Laurie Olsen
Focusing on a prototypical public high school, this study reveals that over 20 percent of the school's students were born in another country, and over a third speak limited English or come from homes in which English is not spoken. Here is what it looks and feels like to go to school and to teach in a time of increasingly complex cultural ...
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The Uprooted
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Oscar Handlin
Provides an historical account of the 35,000,000 people who emigrated to America in the 19th and early 20th century. The author offers an insight into alienation, its consequences and the emotions of those involved. The book examines their disillusionment incited by a new land.
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An American dilemma: the Negro problem and modern democracy.
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Gunnar Myrdal
A classic in sociology, this examination of race relations in the United States was first published in the early 1940s. It is often cited as one of the most powerful, if unheeded, calls for change.
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Toward the African revolution
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Frantz Fanon
This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon's greatest ideas -- ...
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His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
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Geraldo Rivera
With unbiased analysis, Rivera exposes the hypocrisy, racism, and ignorance behind anti-immigration sentiments, from both extremists and otherwise ordinary Americans.
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Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
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Jimmy Breslin
Famed journalist Breslin's account of the life and death of Eduardo Gutierrez, a bricklayer from Mexico, recounts the struggle to live and work as an illegal immigrant in New York City. Gutierrez was killed in an on-the-job accident in 1999, and Breslin investigates the world of city politics and the social conditions that played a role in that ...
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