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Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. In While Time Remains, Park sounds the alarm for Americans by highlighting the dangerous...
3) Homicide
Series
Criterion collection volume 486
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the feel-good, coming-of-age story of Smith, a ten-year-old boy from India growing up in Small Town, America in 1979. As the boy's family tries to straddle the line between embracing the American Dream and preserving their Indian heritage, Smith sneaks out for a taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dons a Saturday Night Fever costume, and contends with his parents as they send him to school with a yellow squash instead of a pumpkin to carve for Halloween....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"In Affluence Without Abundance, anthropologist James Suzman vividly brings to life a proud and private people, introducing unforgettable members of their tribe, and telling the story of the collision between the modern global economy and the oldest hunting and gathering society on earth. In rendering an intimate picture of a people coping with radical change, it asks profound questions about how we now think about matters such as work, wealth, equality,...
Author
Series
Ibero-Americana volume 17
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1976
Physical Desc
522 p. : ill.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boat-lift. Uxbal Encarnación--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie& Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation Taiwanese...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xx, 362 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Description
"On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's...
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