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Mine Okubo - Citizen 13660

Mine Okubo - Citizen 13660

Drawings with brief comments by the author describe her memories of life in a California internment camp during World War II

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Luis Alberto Urrea - Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life

Luis Alberto Urrea - Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life

This memoir, the last of a literary trilogy by Luis Alberto Urrea, exposes the violence and tenderness that goes along with multiculturalism.
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Mayumi Tsutakawa - The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Mayumi Tsutakawa - The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

Collects short stories and poems by Asian American women, from Oriental, Indian, and Polynesian backgrounds.

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William H. Gass - The Tunnel

William H. Gass - The Tunnel

In William H. Gass's second novel, a history professor named William Kohler writes a scholarly book called 'Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany,' ...
John Russell Rickford and Russell J. Rickford - Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

John Russell Rickford and Russell J. Rickford - Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

A reporter and a linguist explore the richness, diversity, and logic behind Black English--through its history and its use in literature and everyday ...

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Jill Nelson - Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

Jill Nelson - Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post's prestigious Sunday magazine in 1986, she thought she had entered ...

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Arnold Genthe and John Tchen - Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

Arnold Genthe and John Tchen - Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

One hundred thirty rare photos offer fascinating visual record of chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of ...

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Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America

"[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION...<br>The powerful opening excerpt by Frederick Douglass evokes his boyhood as a slave, and the collection closes ...

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Peter Bacho - Cebu

Peter Bacho - Cebu

This remarkable first novel follows the struggle of Ben Lucero, a young Filipino American priest who must come to terms with his bifurcated notion of ...

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First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim

This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 ...

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Janisse Ray - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Janisse Ray - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

A naturalist describes growing up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, explaining how a childhood spent in rural isolation amidst the religious ...

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Diana Garcia - When Living Was a Labor Camp

Diana Garcia - When Living Was a Labor Camp

This first book of poems addresses the lives of migrant laborers of California. Garcia herself was born in a labor camp.
Esther G. Belin - From the Belly of My Beauty: Poems

Esther G. Belin - From the Belly of My Beauty: Poems

If it can be said that Native culture is hidden behind the facade of mainstream America, there is a facet of that culture hidden even to many Native ...

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Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise: A Novel

Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise: A Novel

An emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.

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