ISBN:
9780520937468
,
0520937465
,
0520218825
,
9780520218826
,
0520239881
,
9780520239883
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 283 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Conley, Ellen Alexander Chosen shore
DDC:
304.87300922
Keywords:
Immigrants United States
;
Immigrants
;
Electronic books
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Immigrants
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
United States
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Erlebnisbericht
;
Erlebnisbericht
Abstract:
A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics
Abstract:
Acknowledgments; Foreword; PART ONE: Hyphenated Americans; PART TWO: Postcards from America; PART THREE: Charred Portraits: america post-9/11.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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