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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Race and education Race and education Sally Tomlinson Provides crucial information on key educational issues, events and conflicts in Britain from the 1960s to the present day. OL16924682W
Assimilation in American life Assimilation in American life Milton M. Gordon A sociological analysis of the theories of assimilation in American society, noting the cultural and behavioral characteristics of religions, racial and ethnic groups. OL17819844W
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca) El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca) Jhumpa Lahiri Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited… OL2001056W
The Other Side of Assimilation The Other Side of Assimilation Tomas Jimenez 1 online resource OL20218683W
Nationalism, identity and the governance of diversity Nationalism, identity and the governance of diversity Fiona Barker "Fiona Barker examines what happens when the 'new' diversity arising from immigration and the 'old' politics of substate nationalism intersect. Depending on their integration patterns, migrants could… OL23213989W
Welcome to America? Welcome to America? Thomas Streissguth "Examines immigration in the United States, including the history of U.S. immigration and the debate over immigration reforms, laws, and policies"--Provided by publisher. OL441760W
White Teeth White Teeth Ana María de la Fuente Suárez,Zadie Smith,Jenny Sterlin One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with frien… OL481143W
Good neighbors, bad times Good neighbors, bad times Mimi Schwartz Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers—and her father’s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a… OL5365160W
Covering Covering Kenji Yoshino Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives… OL5846775W
Marobavi Marobavi Roger C. Owen ix, 53p. 27cm OL7244102W
Londonstani Londonstani Gautam Malkani 'Londonstani', Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a… OL7989954W
Making San Francisco American Making San Francisco American Barbara Berglund This book attempts to explain how the racially mixed and roughly egalitarian culture of mining-era SF was gradually molded into something acceptable to “cultured” Americans – both to the nouveau rich… OL8330614W
Uprooting and Surviving Uprooting and Surviving Roberta Nannucci xvi, 194 p. : 25 cm OL9095957W