This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
By: Suketu Mehta
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing …
Want to Read $ 2.99"Before you ask other people to respect the borders of the West, ask yourself if the West has ever respected anybody else's border."-Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
"Before you ask other people to respect the borders of the West, ask yourself if the West has ever respected anybody else's border."-Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
"The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he’s staying."-Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
"The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story. Of the arduous journey here, the snow on the streets, the rude immigration agent or the kindly social worker; the lights of the Eiffel Tower or the cold reception from the cousins with whom he’s staying."-Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
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By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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2. Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
By: Aviva Chomsky
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
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3. Quicksand
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Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more
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2.00
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5. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
By: Kent Nerburn
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6. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
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7. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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8. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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10. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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4.46
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11. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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4.10
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4.33
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4.20
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14. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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4.40
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15. This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
By: Suketu Mehta
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"Before you ask other people to respect the borders of the West, ask yourself if the West has ever respected anybody else's border."-Suketu Mehta, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
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4.06
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4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
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4.10
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