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| 1. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons Author: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Gender and U.S. immigration: contemporary trends Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship  Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | Law | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Gaining ground: tailoring social programs to American values Author: Lockhart, Charles 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: Social policy questions present Americans with a cruel dilemma. Most of us will confront hazards, such as illness or aging, against which private personal resources are an inadequate defense. With this in mind, it becomes clear that conditions of our contemporary society make some kinds of public so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Covering immigration: popular images and the politics of the nation Author: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a grow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Gendered transitions: Mexican experiences of immigration Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Latin American Studies | Gender Studies | Chicano Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Immigration Publisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Anthropology | Labor Studies | Demography | Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Sentinel for health: a history of the Centers for Disease Control Author: Etheridge, Elizabeth W Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Medicine Publisher's Description: In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secret . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: How the other half works: immigration and the social organization of labor Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Immigration | Chicano Studies | Social Problems | Urban Studies | California and the West | California and the West Publisher's Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African Studies | Sociology | Law Publisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Asian American Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Author: Ryan, Mary P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies | Gender Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Mary P. Ryan traces the fate of public life and the emergence of ethnic, class, and gender conflict in the nineteenth-century city in this ambitious retelling of a key period of American political and social history. Basing her analysis on three quite different cities - New York, New Orleans, and Sa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Japanese American celebration and conflict: a history of ethnic identity and festival, 1934-1990 Author: Kurashige, Lon 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Californian and Western History | Immigration Publisher's Description: Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particula . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Robert Maynard Hutchins: a memoir Author: Mayer, Milton Sanford 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Print Media | Education | United States History Publisher's Description: At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35."Milton Mayer, Hut . . . [more] Similar Items |