Books in the Nation of Nations series

"Returns of War" critically examines the Vietnam War and its implications for the lives and memories of Vietnamese refugees in the U.S."--

Investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.

Traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day.

Moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism.

Examines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in American literature

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.

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Unveils a fresh perspective on the continually evolving relationship between the U.S. and Latin America

Explores how Asian Americans figured in the effort to shape the credibility of American democracy during the Cold War, even while their perceived "foreignness" cast them as likely alien subversives

Explores the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine

Reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States

Argues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worth

Reveals the dark underside of environmental privilege

Investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined

Explores the relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.

Explores how the history of US citizenship has positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century.

Looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the 20th century. Using case studies, this book shows how specific trends in popular culture have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. It offers an introduction to the major approaches to the study of popular culture.

Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, this book explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes.

Places migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change

Through moving oral histories, Ji-Yeon Yuh tells an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S.

Examines the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality

Illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women's domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women's place in society

Presents an ethnographic study of China/US adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. This book also follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions in both China and the US that prepare children and parents for each other; the practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; and more.