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• Who Gets Believed?

  When the Truth Isn't Enough

  Nayeri, Dina,

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  Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews, emergency rooms,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See No Stranger

  a Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

  Kaur, Valarie,

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  Valarie Kaur is a renowned Sikh activist and in this book, she argues that Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. When we practice love in the face of fear or rage, it has the ability to transform an encounter, a relationship, a community, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Map Is Only One Story

  Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

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  From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown Album

  Essays on Exile and Identity

  Khakpour, Porochista,

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  Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays, at times humorous and at times profound, drawn from more than a decade of Khakpour's work. Altogether, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Victims to Suspects

  Muslim Women Since 9/11

  Hussein, Shakira,

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  Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of "terror" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Just Like Us

  the American Struggle to Understand Foreigners

  Borstelmann, Thomas,

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  Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart. Yet American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not "a Nation of Immigrants"

  Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  The common assumption that the United States is a "nation of immigrants" camouflages the reality that the US is a colonialist settler state.

• One Quarter of the Nation

  Immigration and the Transformation of America

  Foner, Nancy, 1945-

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  An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Nation of Nations

  a Great American Immigration Story

  Gjelten, Tom

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  The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. A Nation of Nations follows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Immigrant

  26 Writers Reflect on America

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  Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America.

• Racial Innocence

  Unmasking Latino anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

  Hernández, Tanya Katerí,

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  Bringing to light stories of Latino anti-Black racism and how they matter for the societal pursuit of equality.

• We Too Sing America

  South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

  Iyer, Deepa (Deepa Vasudeva), 1972-

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  Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Borders

  the History of Race and Immigration in the United States From Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

  Jones, Reece,

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  Jones traces the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial rejection of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. He unearths the link between white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy

  and the Path to a Shared American Future

  Jones, Robert P. (Robert Patrick)

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  The story of three locations in the United States -- in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma -- where the indigenous people were driven out by European colonists, where vicious racial killings took place in the last century, and how these places are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Quite Not White

  Losing and Finding Race in America

  Sen, Sharmila,

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  At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race-on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seeing Red

  Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

  Witgen, Michael John,

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  Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inventing Latinos

  a New Story of American Racism

  Gomez, Laura E., 1964-

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  In an unprecedented demographic shift, Latinos will comprise a third of the American population in just a matter of decades. While their influence shapes everything from electoral politics to popular culture, many Americans still struggle with two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Latinx

  in Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

  Ramos, Paola, 1987-

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  Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them--Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Migrant Souls

  a Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

  Tobar, Héctor, 1963-

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  A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.

• We Need to Talk About Antisemitism

  Fersko, Diana,

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  Every day, Rabbi Diana Fersko fields questions she doesn't know how to answer: "My daughter isn't comfortable being Jewish on campus, do you have a minute to talk?" "Another shooting at a kosher marketplace. Should I be afraid?" Members of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation