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  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

    par Vivek Bald ...
    Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America. ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Sun Never Sets

    South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power

    par Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, Manu Vimalassery ...
    Collections Livre 2 - NYU Series in Social & Cultural Analysis
    The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States.Tracking the changes in global power ... En savoir plus

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    Collections Livre 1 - A Detective Jack Yu Investigation
    “Here’s a dark slice of New York’s Chinatown that most of us...have probably never seen. Henry Chang takes us on an unforgettable guided tour of its lower depths. In a field awash with pallid noir thrillers, this one is the real thing. A genuine winner.”—Herbert H. Lieberman, author of City of the Dead and Shadow Dancers“A dramatic evocation of the exotic. . . . More rewarding than a trip to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    par Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... En savoir plus

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  • Public Executions

    From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

    par Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.16th-20th centurySocieties throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital ... En savoir plus

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  • Stepin Fetchit

    The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry

    par Mel Watkins ...
    In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,” and Mel Watkins’s meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Tiger Mom

    East-West Parenting for the Global Age

    par Maya Thiagarajan ...
    Beyond the Tiger Mom is an in-depth, research-backed guide to the best of Asian parenting.How do Asian parents prime their children for success from a young age by encouraging them to achieve academic excellence? What are the differences between an Asian upbringing and a Western one? These are just two of the many fascinating questions posed and discussed in Beyond the Tiger Mom, a captivating new ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Chinaman's Chance

    One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream

    par Eric Liu ...
    From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged -- and indeed may displace America -- at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American ... En savoir plus

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  • Ghosts of the Tsunami

    Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

    par Richard Lloyd Parry ...
    Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, and Lit HubThe definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat DarknessOn March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of... ... En savoir plus

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  • Charlie Chan Is Dead 2

    At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction-- Revised and Updated)

    par Elaine Kim ...
    More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating voices in Asian American writing—from classics by Jose ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $21.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    par Ellen D. Wu ...
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    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... En savoir plus

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  • Asian Aphrodisiacs

    From Bangkok to Beijing - The Search for the Ultimate Turn-on

    par Jerry Hopkins ...
    "Tiger penis soup? Rhino horn on the oyster half shell? Give me a break!" So says bestselling author Jerry Hopkins as he meets the people, visits the places, and "road tests" dozens of Asia's most popular aphrodisiacs in the first definitive survey of the region's best and worst "turn-on's."Expanding the usual definition to include lotions as well as potions, sex toys and aromatherapy, music and ... En savoir plus

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