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A Nation of Immigrants by Susan F. Martin

On May 9, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Massachusetts welcomed those who shared the religious views of the founders but excluded those whose beliefs challenged the prevailing orthodoxy. Pennsylvania valued pluralism, becoming the most diverse colony in religion, language, and culture. This book traces the evolution of these three competing models of immigration as they explain the historical roots of current policy debates and options

On Black Sisters Street: A Novel by Chika Unigwe

On April 30, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

In her U.S. debut, Nigerian immigrant Unigwe sets a melancholy tale in her adopted home of Belgium. When “Sisi” receives an offer from a questionable businessman to work in Belgium she accepts, agreeing to repay expenses as she works. She leaves the depressed, jobless Lagos only to find herself employed as a prostitute on Antwerp’s Zwartezusterstraat (literally “Black Sisters Street”) along with fellow Africans Ama, Joyce, and Efe. Despite her dire circumstance, Sisi falls in love with a native Belgian who encourages her to break free from her madam and the Lagos businessman.

My New American Life: A Novel by Francine Prose

On April 22, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Francine Prose is dazzling in her sixteenth book of spiky fiction, a fast-flowing, bittersweet, brilliantly satirical immigrant story that subtly embodies the cultural complexity and political horrors of the Balkans and Bush-Cheney America.

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders

On March 18, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Arrival City brilliantly captures the breakneck pace of this ‘great migration,’ as the peasants of the poor world relocate to their own megacities—and ours. And it brings profoundly good news from the mean streets . . . Bottom of Form Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage and sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and optimistic narrative about our future.

Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

On March 13, 2011, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

As well as a war of independence, the Revolutionary War was a civil conflict in which the losers, white, black, and Indian loyalists, paid dearly. Facing retribution from the victorious patriots, tens of thousands fled the new U.S. to havens in the British Empire. Jasanoff positions her history as the most comprehensive treatment of this topic; accomplished as scholarship, it appeals to general-interest readers through her narrative accounts of several refugees’ fates after mass evacuations in 1783.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) by Edwidge Danticat

On December 4, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

What is best in this collection are the vivid portraits of the author’s childhood in Haiti (and then as a book-obsessed teenager visiting the library in Brooklyn), intermingled with return journeys to visit relatives, collect sacks of coffee and observe the nation changing.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat

On November 18, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Editor

Whether the topic is Haiti’s war of independence, 9/11, the artist, musician and actor Jean-Michel Basquiat, the January earthquake and its aftermath, Danticat writes with a compassionate insight but without a trace of sentimentality.

Kindle Edition: How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu

On November 3, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

Early on in How to Read the Air–the second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears–Jonas Woldemariam and his soon-to-be wife Angela attend a party, where they tell casual, false stories about Angela’s absent father and arrive, all of a sudden, at the fulcrum of this elegant and unusual novel.

Kindle Edition – How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu

On October 15, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Editor

The Fellow Utopian – Coming To America

On June 22, 2010, in The Fellow Utopian, by Editor

THE story of my path to American Citizenship begins today, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. I am still waiting for a substantial tax return – well, substantial in my world, and I am planning to use part of that payment to apply for American Citizenship.

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