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What’s New about the "New" Immigration?: Traditions and ...

What’s New about the "New" Immigration?: Traditions and ...

Marilyn Halter

Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965 Marilyn Halter, Marilynn S. Johnson, Katheryn P. Viens, Conrad Edick Wright Zoltan D. Barany, Peter D Stachura. W HAT ' S NEWABOUTTHE “N EW ” I MMIGRATION ?
Migrations in a Global Context: Transitions and ...

Migrations in a Global Context: Transitions and ...

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These issues have already been broached in depth by Joane Nagel.9 There are also two excellent accounts of the changing cultural identity of Cape Verdean- Americans in New England by Marilyn Halter and Gina E. Sanchez.10 Rather, the ...
African and American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

African and American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

Marilyn Halter

Irish American Identity and Racial Expectations Jennifer Nugent Duffy Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis ofAuthority Zareena Grewal African & American: West Africans in Post–Civil Rights America Marilyn ...
Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory

Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory

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Peggy Levitt, “A Todos Les Llamo Primo (I Call Everyone Cousin)'. The Social Basis for Latino Small Businesses,” in New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs, ed. Marilyn Halter (Amherst: University of Massachusetts ...
Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American ...

Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American ...

Marilyn Halter

Cape Verdean Americans are the only major group of Americans to have made the voyage from Africa to the United States voluntarily.
Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity

Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity

Marilyn Halter

This is a huge business, whose target groups are the "hyphenated Americans"--in other words, all of us. As immigrant groups gain economic security, they tend to reinforce--not relinquish--their ethnic identification.
Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture

Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture

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Works byJenna Weissman Joselit, Andrew R. Heinze, Marilyn Halter, and Elizabeth H. Pleck, just to name a few, focus on the role of consumption among Jewish immigrants in America.2 These studies portray consumption as a crucial. 1 For a ...
New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs

New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs

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Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs Marilyn Halter. More than fifty years after publication of Oscar Handlin's pioneering work, Boston's Immigrants, this book takes a fresh look at the city's most recent arrivals. Although Massachusetts ranks high in ...
African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America

Marilyn Halter

African & American 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.
The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

Marilyn Meberg

Marilyn Meberg loves to laugh. She sees humor in the absurd, the off-center, the quirks of humankind--and especially, in herself. If you, like Marilyn, appreciate the therapeutic value of laughter, this book is for you.
First Impressions

First Impressions

Marilyn Sachs

Marilyn Sachs. Also by Marilyn Sachs Lost in America Copyright © 2006 by Marilyn Sachs A Deborah Brodie Book.
The Center of Attention

The Center of Attention

Marilyn Milley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARILYN C. MILLEY Retiring from the field of laboratory medicine, Marilyn took up the craft of writing. Her work reflects her experience in a well-researched environment. She weaves human tragedy, moral issues, social  ...
Medieval Renaissance Baroque: a cat's cradle for Marilyn ...

Medieval Renaissance Baroque: a cat's cradle for Marilyn ...

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

"Reflects Marilyn Aronberg Lavin's innovative work in art and cultural history in both the print and digital realms.
Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

C. David Heymann

When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international sensation. Joe and Marilyn reveals the true inside story of these two iconic figures whose marital troubles were Hollywood legend.
Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul

Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul

Adrian Finkelstein

Marilyn Monroe Returns tells the remarkable story of Sherrie Lea Laird, a young Canadian singer whose life has an astonishing twist: she seems to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Michiganensian

Michiganensian

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Second Row: Marilyn Carnegie: Margaret MeCord; Jeanne Sykes; Ann Jetter; Kathryn Adams; Jane Cameron; Gretta ... Susan Meach; Margaret Hammond; Balig Berberian; Marilyn Shoares; Jeanne Derr; Marilyn Houck; Judith McGinley.
Marilyn Memorabilia: Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer

Marilyn Memorabilia: Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer

Kidder

hen Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, she willed most all of her personal possessions to her friend and famed acting coach, Lee Strassburg, and to his wife, Paula. Marilyn had attended Strassburg's Acting Studio in New York City in the mid-1950s ...
Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe

Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe

Marie Clayton

Life in Pictures: Marilyn Monroe documents Marilyn's fascinating life in full, with a collection of photographs that cover her early years as a photographer's model, her iconic movies and her personal life up to her untimely death in 1962
My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems : Including In ...

My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems : Including In ...

Nellie McClung

My Sex is Ice Cream evokes Marilyn Monroe's glamour, vulnerability, sexuality and intelligence. It is the story, in Marilyn's voice, of her complex marriages and her many relationships with movie moguls, politicians and poets.
Marilyn Manson: 'Talking'

Marilyn Manson: 'Talking'

Chuck Weiner

Chuck Weiner. “Marilyn Manson is about pointing out that showbusiness is just such a fake thing and everyone is so full of shit. Marilyn Manson is a name that is so fake it goes beyond that and it becomes real. In a world that is completely full ...
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Graham McCann

Analyzes previous biographies of Marilyn Monroe, attempts to portray her complex personality, and discusses her career as an actress
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Marilyn Manson

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover).
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Marilyn Manson

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover).
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder

Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder

Jay Margolis

In "Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder," biographer Jay Margolis presents the most thorough investigation of Marilyn Monroe's death to date and shares how he reached the definitive conclusion that she was murdered.
Circles

Circles

Marilyn Sachs

Both of them would like to find someone of the opposite sex who views life as seriously as they do—but they keep missing one another. Juvenile/middle grade fiction by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Puffin
A Pocket Full of Seeds

A Pocket Full of Seeds

Marilyn Sachs

Where could she go? And would she ever see her family again? A New York Times Outstanding Children’s Book of the Year. Juvenile Fiction by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Doubleday
The Story of Marilyn Manson

The Story of Marilyn Manson

Doug Small

Covers the band's early years as Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, their debut album Portrait of an American Family, to Antichrist Superstar.
The Fat Girl

The Fat Girl

Marilyn Sachs

With this darkly ironic take on the classic Pygmalion tale, Marilyn Sachs offers young readers a candid portrayal of what happens when the intoxicating thrill of control is confused with love.
Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love

C. David Heymann

Traces the passionate and sometimes volatile relationship between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, covering their sensational 1954 elopement and the troubles that led to their divorce nine months later.

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