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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON |
Noted for his military histories and his social commentary on post-9/11 American life, Victor Davis Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family far… |
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The lost daughter
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Williams, Mary |
The adopted daughter of Jane Fonda describes her youth in 1970s Oakland, California, her daunting prospects in the face of her dysfunctional biological family, and the ways in which a structured home… |
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Strategies of Segregation
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David G. Garcia |
Unearths ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality |
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Beautiful Boy
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David Sheff |
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drug… |
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Imperial
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William T. Vollmann |
An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writersIt sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern Calif… |
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Moving from the margins
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Adela de la Torre |
"Immigration reform. Bilingual education. Affirmative action. Such issues trigger knee-jerk reactions from many people, and in California those reactions are likely to fall along strict ethnic lines.… |
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The decline of the Californios
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Ramon A. Gutierrez,Leonard Pitt |
Publisher description: A striking addition to the literature of ethnic minorities, this book deals with the early struggles of the Spanish-speaking people of California. It focuses on the circumstanc… |
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