Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
For the freedom of her race	Lisa G. Materson	"Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio…	OL12048834W
Velikai︠a︡ Khorvatii︠a︡	A. V. Maĭorov	208 p. ; 25 cm.	OL12801067W
The Warmth of Other Suns	Robin Miles,Isabel Wilkerson	In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citize…	OL15380640W
Mapping human history	Steve Olson	Mapping Human History is a comprehensive guide to the evolution of humans. The book is carefully chaptered into specific sections which focus on explaining both the geographical causes of human evolu…	OL15831919W
Ethnicity, markets, and migration in the Andes	Olivia Harris,Brooke Larson	"Major compilation of historical and anthropological articles focuses on the nature of markets and exchange structures in the Andes. Prominent scholars explore Andean participation in the European ma…	OL18294170W
Wherever there is light	Peter Golden	A "panoramic tale of twentieth-century America, chronicling the decades-long love affair between a Jewish immigrant and the granddaughter of a slave"--Amazon.com.	OL20015544W
Mixtec Evangelicals	Mary I. O'Connor	MIXTEC EVANGELICALS is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cult…	OL20236882W
South Asian in the mid-south	Iswari P Pandey	"In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this communi…	OL22319592W
Devil's Gate	David Roberts	"The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. Following the death of Joseph S…	OL2261522W
Les étrangers illégaux à la recherche de papiers	Ange Bergson Lendja Ngnemzue	Ce livre évalue et contourne certaines habitudes de recherche et de pensée sur l'immigration irrégulière pour considérer les enjeux des "papiers" du côté des sans-papiers eux-mêmes. L'enquête s'intér…	OL24452706W
Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers	David Damas	"In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. In Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers Dav…	OL3068276W
Death on the Black Sea	Douglas Frantz,Catherine Collins	On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees. One man clung fiercely to a piece of deck,…	OL445245W
Jewish immigrants, 1880-1924	Susan E. Haberle	Discusses reasons why Jewish people left their homelands to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and contributions they made to American society.	OL5723115W
A suppressed chapter in history	Tathagata Roy	Very few people know that about 10 million Hindus, with a handful of Buddhists and Christians were driven out by Islamic religious persecution from the land mass that is now known as Bangladesh (fo…	OL5872632W
Poor cousins	Ande Manners	Russian Jewish Immigration to America at the turn of the century and the story of how they 'Americanized.' Also how they related with their German Jewish 'cousins' who had already been here a long t…	OL7039437W
Moving through and Passing On	Yaa Oppong	"The Fulani are one of West Africa's most populous and geographically dispersed ethnic groups. Commonly thought of as a pastoral people, primarily engaged in cattle herding, Fulani peoples are in rea…	OL8515398W