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  • Shopping for Identity

    The Marketing of Ethnicity

    by Marilyn Halter ...
    In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods and services spend close to $2 billion a year marketing the foods, clothing, objects, vacations, and events that help people express their (and others') ethnic identities. This is a huge ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Between Race and Ethnicity

    Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965

    by Marilyn Halter ...
    Series series Statue of Liberty Ellis Island
    Arriving in New England first as crew members of whaling vessels, Afro-Portuguese immigrants from Cape Verde later came as permanent settlers and took work in the cranberry industry, on the docks, and as domestic workers.Marilyn Halter combines oral history with analyses of ships' records to chart the history and adaptation patterns of the Cape Verdean Americans. Though identifying themselves in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • African & American

    West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson ...
    African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson highlight the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • What’s New about the "New" Immigration?

    Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965

    by Marilyn Halter, Marilynn S. Johnson, Katheryn P. Viens, Conrad Edick Wright ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • African & American

    West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

    by Marilyn Halter, Violet Showers Johnson ...
    Series Book 24 - Nation of Nations
    Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrantsAfrican & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West Africanimmigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    The Quest for Dignity

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  • Feminism Seduced

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