Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City 194760211X, 9781947602113

The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City 9781503631984

The first comprehensive analysis of school integration politics in New York City from the mid-1950s to the present.

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Surviving the Life of an Immigrant in New York City 9781524500689, 2016907892, 9781524500702, 9781524500696

Sharing one's true-to-life experiences as an immigrant in a foreign country requires reminiscing happy and sad memo

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Garifuna Food Cookbook: Tasty homemade Caribbean food recipes from Garifuna grandmothers in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the United States

I am Garifuna. I pay tribute to all our Garifuna grandmothers. They are the original indigenous authors of this cookbook

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The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century 9781644694916, 1644694913

The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest

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Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York 9781472432575, 9781315579467

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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times 9780814769355

The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers". “There are eight million stories in the

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More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times 9780814769027

What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair wi

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A People's Guide to New York City 9780520964150

This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal

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Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio 9781479834211

Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politi

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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 0195116356, 9780195116359

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-

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