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Immigration and Assimilation & racial identitybooks

Below are the best books we could find on Immigration and Assimilation and racial identity.

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The Undocumented Americans

Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell.

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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2025
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The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian.

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Anthony Christian Ocampo
2016
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Fairest: A Memoir

Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction “Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.” —The New York Times Book Review “A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival.

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Meredith Talusan
2025
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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal.

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Vivek Bald
2025
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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways.

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Paola Ramos
2025
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500 Years of Chicana Women’s History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana

The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.

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Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez
2008
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place.

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Sejal Shah
2020
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos’ dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know about race in America.

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Laura E. Gómez
2025
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Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world’s politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges.

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Francis Fukuyama
2025
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Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials (Latina/o Sociology, 8)

An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials’ notions of national belonging Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society.

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Nilda Flores-González
2025
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