Memoirs and personal accounts that illuminate the joys and complexity of immigrant life.
Brotherhood
Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream
Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Book – 2013
Eddie Huang burned his way through American culture, defying every “model minority” stereotype along the way. His book is the immigrant’s story for the twenty-first century; a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be an American.
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Out of Place
A Memoir
Running for My Life
One Lost Boy’s Journey From the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Book – 2012
American Gypsy
Book – 2012
Strength in What Remains
Book – 2009
Alek
My Life From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel
Book – 2008
Traces the life story of the Sudanese-born international supermodel, describing the civil war-torn childhood that ill prepared her for her life in high fashion, her daring escape to London, and her discovery at a street fair at the age of nineteen.
Not Fit for Our Society
Nativism and Immigration
Book – 2010
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of two centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship.
The Other Face of America
Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future
Book – 2002
In these essays, Ramos delves into Latino culture throughout the U.S. and seeks to understand what fuels the immigrants’ dreams.
Outcasts United
The Story of A Refugee Soccer Team That Changed A Town
Book – 2009
A reporter for The New York Times and author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer documents the lives of a wildly diverse group of young kids who miraculously unite as a team, against the backdrop of a fading American town struggling to make a haven for its new arrivals–refugees.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collison of Two Cultures
Book – 2012
Misunderstandings between American Doctors and the very traditional Hmong family of a little girl prone to seizures displays exquisitely the cultural barriers that can sometimes hinder even the best efforts.
Strangers From A Different Shore
A History of Asian Americans
Book – 1998
In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes–by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring–he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of American history.