ethnic relations

"Economist Bryan Caplan makes a . . . case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction"--Amazon.com.

In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn?t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda?s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation?s past, Rwanda?s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict.

"An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so"--Provided by publisher.

"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, [a young reader's adaptation of] . . . the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the treacherous final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now"--Provided by publisher.

"Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the United States, and in China. Huie, the youngest of six children and the only one born in the United States, grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, where images of pop culture fed, formed, and confused him. At times his own parents seemed foreign and exotic. His visit to China in 2010 compounded the confusion: his American-ness made him as visible there as his Chinese-ness did in Minnesota. To make sense of his experiences, Huie photographed and interviewed people of Chinese descent and those influenced by Chinese-ness. Their multifaceted perspectives project humor and irony, as well as cultural guilt and uncertainty. In a series of diptychs, Huie wears the clothes of Chinese men whose lives he could have lived, blurring the boundary between photographer and subject. How does Chinese-ness collide with American-ness? And who gets to define those hyphenated abstract nouns? Part meta-memoir and part actual memoir, 'Chinese-ness' reframes today's conversations about race and identity"--Provided by publisher.

Contains essays that provide information about 50 ethnic, ethnoreligious, and Native American cultures residing in the U.S., focusing on each group's experiences in the areas of acculturation and assimilation, family and community, language, religion, economics, traditions, politics, and contributions to American society. Arranged alphabetically from Georgian Americans to Ojibwa.

Contains essays that provide information about 56 ethnic, ethnoreligious, and Native American cultures residing in the U.S., focusing on each group's experiences in the areas of acculturation and assimilation, family and community, language, religion, economics, traditions, politics, and contributions to American society. Arranged alphabetically from Acadians to Garifuna Americans.

Describes the settlement of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas, covering changes and conflicts under Spanish rule, and discusses the Mexican Revolution.

An account of the Polish resistance partisans who attacked German outposts, derailed trains, etc.

Uses political cartoons to explore the anxiety, resentment, and fear that most Americans feel when discussing Islam and Muslim cultures. Provides a brief history of Islam and America's interaction with Muslims, then examines common misunderstandings about Muslim cultures.