Ethnic category: 7100 books
Soundtracks of Asian America
Navigating Race through Musical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China
Becoming a 'Modern' Man
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...
Once Upon a Quinceanera
Coming of Age in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a “phenomenal, indispensable” (USA Today) exploration of the Latina “sweet fifteen” celebration, by the bestselling author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies
The quinceañera, a celebration...
Hot. Passionate. and Illegal?
Why (Almost) Everything You Thought About Latinos Just May Be True
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
From Dancing With the Stars finalist Cristian de la Fuente comes a tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding Latino culture-now in paperback.
As a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, international star and actor Cristián de la Fuente automatically assumed the role of the flashy Latino dancer,...
The New Latina's Bible
The Modern Latina's Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
For nearly a decade, The Latina's Bible has been the go-to guide for Latinas everywhere. In this updated and expanded edition, author Sandra Guzman continues to use her trademark warmth, humor, and wisdom to explore a wide range of topics, from dating and sexuality to family and career. The New Latina's...
Crux
A Cross-Border Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death
**Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply...
by Michael DiPilla
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
When the first Italian moved to the area near Catherine Street around 1798, it was mostly forest and field. It was considered Irishtown by the early residents. By 1852, an Italian church had been established for the community, and from the advent of mass migration beginning in 1876 grew Philadelphia's...
When I Was Puerto Rican
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard
In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago...
Salsa Crossings
Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os...
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at America�s shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists,...
Ebbs and Flows of Medieval Empires, Ad 900–1400
A Short History of Medieval Religion, War, Prosperity, and Debt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Ebbs and Flows of Medieval Empires, AD 9001400 provides a flow of history throughout the medieval world from 900 to 1400 AD, describing the ebbs and flows of empires as the western world recovered from the dark ages. As a point of reference, author Will Slatyer presents the empires in Asia in the...
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An excursion through the Japanese-American internment using archival materials from the author’s own family.
In this unique memoir, Karen Tei Yamashita draws on her family’s history and creates a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic...
by Culture Clash
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
"These guys are funny daredevils of performance, totally fearless as they skewer convention and lazy thinking. Cool."—Eric Bogosian
"Important social satire for these urgent times."—Dolores Huerta, Vice President, United Farm Workers Union
"Keep kicking them...
by Huy Pham
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Within these 300 pages, you will find 70+ English short stories of a Vietnamese generation full of optimism and angst. These edgy stories run the gamut from quirky parents, cultural confusion, child abuse, bi-cultural marriage, and sexuality. This book will make you laugh and cry.
The Vietnamese...