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A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
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by University Press of Colorado
Hardcover (01 September, 1997)
(7 reviews) 3.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: This book will open your eyes!!!: I strongly recommend this book. It is about time that someone wrote a book about the virtues of the Chinese people living in the western U.S
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 May, 1999)
(8 reviews) 2.62 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: music from under the floorboards: Spivak works in the interstices to tease out what has been left out in ideas, in cultures, in histories,

A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century
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by New Century Books
Paperback (September, 2003)
(2 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Good thesis, false content: This books central thesis is correct, namely that different cultures and different civilizations are made up of different races,
Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
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by Anchor
Paperback (12 December, 1992)
(15 reviews) 3.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: a modern tale of dante's inferno yet lyrical, but real: This book is a must read for anyone who cares to understand Mexico's border life.

African Perspectives on Colonialism (Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History,
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by Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback (01 November, 1989)
Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrant
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by University of New Mexico Press
Paperback (01 March, 2004)

Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
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by Perennial
Paperback (19 June, 1996)
(55 reviews) 3.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A book every white person must read!: The information in this book is what white children in school should be reading, not the liberal spewage of the elite.
America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity (Rose Series in Sociology.)
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by Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Hardcover (01 May, 2003)

American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 September, 1991)
(4 reviews) 4.75 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Last Frontiersmen: Overall a good study of the last great westward folk migration in American history. I would add that many of their predecessors in the "classic" frontier period were just as broke and hungry as these migrants,
American Gulag : Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
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by University of California Press
Hardcover (01 June, 2004)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Systemic Abuse: Given the current focus on the mistreatment and torture of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere and the debate over the origins of this abhorrent behavior,

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
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by University of North Carolina Press
Paperback (19 May, 2003)
Barbarian Virtues : The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad,
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by Hill and Wang
Paperback (16 April, 2001)
(5 reviews) 4.8 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Fascinating and well-written--required reading for Americans: "At its core 'civilization' was an economic concept" (p. 50). So shows Jacobson,

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
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by Russel Sage Foundation
Paperback (01 September, 2003)
(1 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Ver y slow due to heavy facts yet compensates at the end: The book speaks of the continuing problems with immgration due to border policies between America and Mexico.
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (Nation of Newcomers
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by New York University Press
Paperback (01 June, 2004)
(3 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Powerful and Well Written: As the author points out, there is very little work on international military wives, and Korean military wives in particular.

Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 September, 2001)
Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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by Broadway
Hardcover (05 October, 2004)

Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (The C.
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by Duke University Press
Paperback (01 October, 1997)
Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan (The Anthropology of Contemporary
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by Cornell University Press
Paperback (01 September, 2002)
(4 reviews) 4.75 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A very thoroughly researched, well written book: The topic of Japanese Brazilian migrants in Japan is one that very few people outside of Japan or Brazil know about.

Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (Public Anthropology, 5
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 September, 2003)
Charlie Two Shoes and the Marines of Love Company
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by Naval Institute Press
Hardcover (01 November, 1998)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Compelling story of friendship and perseverance: Charlie Two Shoes is a fascinating story of one man's friendship with a group of US Marines and his incredible perseverence in getting re-united with them.

Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance
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by National Academies Press
Paperback (October, 1999)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Children of immigrants: The National Academy Press publishes reports from the United States National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering,
Children of Immigration (The Developing Child)
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (01 April, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: pretty good account of immigrant children: Children of immigrants covers the experiences of children of immigrants and their families through the past few decades when the United States has been receiving immigration from non-European countries and many of these new immigrants are non-English speaking so there are plenty of osbtacles in their way.

Citizenship in A Global World : Comparing Citizenship Rights for Aliens (Migration,
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover (25 August, 2001)
Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory
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by Columbia University Press
Paperback (15 April, 1994)

Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rico in a Global Perspective
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 September, 2003)
Colonialism Postcolonialism. (The New Critical Idiom)
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by Routledge
Paperback (30 January, 2005)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: INTRODUCING THE POST COLONIAL: Comqests and Exodus are as old as human race&hence colonising is no new thing.But when we speak about colonialism we now mean the domination of Asia Africa &t

Colonialism's Culture
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (02 May, 1994)
Coming to America (Second Edition) : A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American
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by Perennial
Paperback (01 November, 2002)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The sine qua non for understanding immigration to America: Roger Daniels second edition of "Coming to America" is masterful. There is no other book,

Conquests and Cultures: An International History
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by Basic Books
Paperback (01 May, 1999)
(22 reviews) 4.18 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Durants Move Over: Good reading, good sense and yet provocative. History in a palatable serving. It makes sense and ties together the major events of history and cultures based on real events.
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San FranciscoÕs Chinatown (American Crossroads
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 October, 2001)

Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
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by Vintage
Paperback (12 August, 1987)
(15 reviews) 4.73 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Moving & Thought Provoking: This book was both moving & thought provoking as it explains just a few illegal immigration stories.
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
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by Picador
Paperback (07 September, 2002)
(48 reviews) 4.29 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Migrant Journey: Guided by the fatal experience of Benjamin, Jaime and Salvador Chavez, Ruben Martinez navigates the complex and tragedy-ridden path of the Mexican migrant.

Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America
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by W.W. Norton & Company
Hardcover (04 August, 2003)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: It's about time: It's about time someone took the time out to celebrate the people that make New York City the beautiful, wonderful place that it is.
Cuba Confidential : Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
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by Vintage
Paperback (14 October, 2003)
(39 reviews) 3.28 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: a refreshing view: Most written materials on either Cuba or the Cuban exiles are biased toward relentless criticisms or else justifications and praise.N

Cutting for Sign (Vintage Departures)
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by Vintage
Paperback (30 May, 1995)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A very good read: A very good read about the tense and diverse relations that exist at the Mexican - U.S. border. Author is a good storyteller,
Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Mapping Racisms)
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by Temple University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2004)

Discourse on Colonialism
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by New York University Press
Paperback (01 November, 2000)
(5 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent writing, very good perception: I read Cesaire's 'discours sur le colonialisme' in one afternoon at a coffe place and it was captivating in how intellectually he wrote,
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
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by South End Press
Paperback (01 June, 2000)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A terse, important book: If only every person in public office today could read this book, and take it to heart... The authors waste no words arguing about an unseen traffic in women's labor that barely sustains them,

Dividing Lines : The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton Studies
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (06 May, 2002)
Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
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by University of California Press
Paperback (26 April, 2001)
(3 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Well-Done: A good introduction into the world of domestic workers in the United States.I must concur with an earlier reviewer in that while the narratives were moving and rich (and while I don't doubt the validity of her research),

Dual Nationality, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe: The
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by Berghahn Books
Paperback (01 May, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A cogently written and analytical account: Collaboratively compiled and edited by Randall Hansen (Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Merton College, Oxford University, England) and Patrick Weil (Director of Research at CNRS in the Centre for Research on the History of Social Movements and Trade Unionism, Paris I-Sorbonne), Dual Nationality, Social Rights And Federal Citizenship In The U.S
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920 (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island
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by University of Illinois Press
Hardcover (01 August, 2002)

Ellis Island : Echoes from a Nation's Past
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by Aperture
Paperback (01 September, 1991)
Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide
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by New Press
Paperback (01 August, 1997)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: This history of the place H. G. Wells once called "quietly immense" is a fine contribution to our understanding of how central immigrants have been to the American experience. Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Marjorie Lightman,

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 January, 1988)
(6 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: How So Many Irish Became American: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America is a well documented history of the emigration of more than seven million Irish people who left Eire for North America in five time periods from pre-Revolutionary days to 1921.
Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (14 September, 1995)

Ethnic Cleansing
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback (04 September, 1999)
(2 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A pleasant surprise: This is still the most important book on the subject. The author starts with Assyrians and ends in our time.
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenshi
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by Rutgers University Press
Paperback (01 June, 2004)

Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 May, 1991)
Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American Immigration Through Son
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by Crown
Hardcover (12 February, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A great gift!: This wonderful book tells the story of the Irish immigration to North America through the songs that they sang. Accompanied by a CD containing sixteen songs performed by the author and his band.

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