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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
On Gold Mountain On Gold Mountain Lisa See Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives, in… OL14927215W
The woman warrior The woman warrior Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the… OL1822441W
Enkele reis Europa Enkele reis Europa Willemijn Steutel Persoonlijke verhalen van migranten die om verschillende redenen naar België verhuisden. Tekst met korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. OL28767226W
The Dutch in America, 1609-1974 The Dutch in America, 1609-1974 Gerald Francis De Jong Traces the history of Dutch-Americans discussing why each wave of immigrants left Holland, where they settled, and their way of life in and contributions to their new country from colonial times to t… OL4290773W
Unequal Freedom Unequal Freedom Evelyn Nakano Glenn "The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the e… OL5107455W
Strangers from a different shore Strangers from a different shore Ronald Takaki Ronald Takaki, an expert in Asian American history and a former Ethnic Studies professor at Berkeley, tells the story of immigrants from Asia from the spike of immigration in the mid 1800s to the res… OL85716W
Immigration as a democratic challenge Immigration as a democratic challenge Ruth Rubio-Marin Immigration raises a number of important moral issues regarding access to the rights and privileges of citizenship. At present, immigrants to most Western democracies do not enjoy the same rights as … OL9774874W