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The chosen shore : stories of immigrants / Ellen Alexander Conley.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conley, Ellen Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword; PART ONE: Hyphenated Americans; PART TWO: Postcards from America; PART THREE: Charred Portraits: america post-9/11
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93746-5
- 1-59734-536-9
- OCLC:
- 475930332
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