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Prior to the working on the book, Bush met all of the immigrants whose stories are covered in the book. [1] In creating the book, Bush stated "My hope is that Out of Many, One will help focus our collective attention on the positive effects that immigrants have on our country." [2] Out of Many, One quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [2]
Immigrants and their children comprise only 27% of the U.S. population, but they have, according to the American Immigration Council, founded 46% of the companies on the Fortune 500 list ...
An American immigrant novel is a genre of American novel which explores the process of assimilation and the relationship of American immigrants toward American identity and ideas. The novels often show and explore generational differences in immigrant families, especially the first and second generations.
The Good Immigrant is a book of 21 essays by BAME writers, described by Sandeep Parmar in The Guardian as "an unflinching dialogue about race and racism in the UK", [1] which aims to "document… what it means to be a person of colour now" [2] in light of what Shukla notes in the book's foreword "the backwards attitude to immigration and refugees [and] the systematic racism that runs through ...
Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...
Chicago artist Vicko Alvarez recently released a comic and activity book to help immigrant children talk about the fear of deportation.
America Is in the Heart described the indelible mark a person's background has on his or her life, highlighting the failures of generalizing racial identities. Ironically, it is Bulosan's success and America Is in the Heart's dominance in the study of Filipino-American literature that may have a greater impact of then his actual words.
Migrant literature focuses on the social contexts in the migrants' country of origin which prompt them to leave, on the experience of migration itself, on the mixed reception which they may receive in the country of arrival, on experiences of racism and hostility, and on the sense of rootlessness and the search for identity which can result from displacement and cultural diversity.