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The book has also been well received by universities across the United States. It was the 2017-2018 Common Book at UCLA [4] and the 2018-2019 Common Book at the University of Oregon. [15] The Best We Could Do has been so well received Bui has even had offers for film rights, but she has declined all of them. [2]
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 ...
A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.. The name of the book is a reference to the fact that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly made up of immigrants and their recent descendants, who settled the country following the European colonization of the Americas and the ...
Caribbean immigrants. Then I re-visited the issue of Caribbean immigrant women and domestic workers’ rights, with the aim of expanding my opinion piece into a report. The narrative of the Caribbean nanny has been framed in a fictional or semi-autobiographical context. Some time ago, at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, I met
The last sentence in our book reads: “African immigrants can become part of the “us” that is the United States, even be drawn in as part of bell hooks’ Kentucky “culture of belonging ...
God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.” 6. “That first morning I remember mom saying as I got dressed in my new outfit, ‘Now, I want you to behave yourself today, Ruby, and ...
They are concerned about deporting people to a country with a questionable human rights record and are angry that the plan will include modern slavery victims and children. ‘Benefits Street ...
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.