The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
Book
Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a...
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
Book
'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself,...
African American Children in American Political Life: The Literature and Politics of the Impossible
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This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex...
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador’s violence to build...
Politics social issues
The Routledge Guidebook to Jane Jacobs' the Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities was published in 1961 and is now generally...
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement
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Union membership in the United States has fallen beneath 11%, the lowest rate since before the New...
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
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With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott “pioneered...
Paying Calls in Shangri-La: Scenes from a Woman's Life in American Diplomacy
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Judith M. Heimann entered the diplomatic life in 1958 to join her husband, John, in Jakarta,...
