A Nation of Immigrants

Nation of Immigrant

We know that almost all of us in the United States are immigrants or decendents of immigrants. We also know that undocumented immigrants play important roles in our communities -- as family, friends, colleagues, students, and people who have overcome tremendous obstacles to seek safety and possibility in the United States. We stand with all who defend DACA and offer this reading list to those who wish to learn more or educate others about the immigrant experience. Have a favorite book on the topic to add to this list? Write to us at pointreyesbooks@gmail.com.

 

What Was Ellis Island? (What Was?) By Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ, David Groff (Illustrator) Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9780448479156
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Published: Penguin Workshop - March 13th, 2014

Seedfolks By Paul Fleischman, Judy Pedersen (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Paul Fleischman, Judy Pedersen (Illustrator)
$10.99
ISBN: 9780064472074
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Published: HarperTeen - December 14th, 2004

Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) By Pam Muñoz Ryan Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9780439120425
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Published: Scholastic Paperbacks - May 1st, 2002

Enrique's Journey (The Young Adult Adaptation): The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother By Sonia Nazario Cover Image
$11.99
ISBN: 9780385743280
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Published: Ember - August 5th, 2014

The Journey By Francesca Sanna Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781909263994
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Published: Flying Eye Books - September 13th, 2016

The Arrival By Shaun Tan, Shaun Tan (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Shaun Tan, Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
$21.99
ISBN: 9780439895293
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Published: Arthur A. Levine Books - October 1st, 2007

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America By Daniel K. Richter Cover Image
$36.00
ISBN: 9780674011175
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Published: Harvard University Press - April 30th, 2003

Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today: A Library of America Special Publication By Various, Pete Hamill (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Various, Pete Hamill (Foreword by)
$24.15
ISBN: 9781598532906
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Published: Library of America - January 2nd, 2014

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America #105) By Mae M. Ngai, Mae M. Ngai (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Mae M. Ngai, Mae M. Ngai (Foreword by)
$30.99
ISBN: 9780691160825
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Published: Princeton University Press - April 27th, 2014

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson (Introduction by)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781566894951
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Published: Coffee House Press - April 4th, 2017

Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America By Helen Thorpe Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781416538981
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Published: Scribner - May 3rd, 2011

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (California Series in Public Anthropology #36) By Jason De Leon, Michael Wells (By (photographer)) Cover Image
By Jason De Leon, Michael Wells (By (photographer))
$29.95
ISBN: 9780520282759
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Published: University of California Press - October 23rd, 2015

Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America By Peter Schrag Cover Image
$35.94
ISBN: 9780520269910
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Published: University of California Press - May 1st, 2010

The Devil's Highway: A True Story By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316010801
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 19th, 2005

The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail By Oscar Martinez, Francisco Goldman (Introduction by), Daniela Maria Ugaz (Translated by), John Washington (Translated by) Cover Image
By Oscar Martinez, Francisco Goldman (Introduction by), Daniela Maria Ugaz (Translated by), John Washington (Translated by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781781682975
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Published: Verso - June 3rd, 2014

Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants (Vintage Departures) By Ted Conover Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780394755182
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Published: Vintage - August 12th, 1987

Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States By Hiroshi Motomura Cover Image
$50.39
ISBN: 9780195336085
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - September 17th, 2007

Brother, I'm Dying: National Book Award Finalist (Vintage Contemporaries) By Edwidge Danticat Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781400034307
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Published: Vintage - September 9th, 2008

Americanah: A novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307455925
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Published: Vintage - March 4th, 2014

All They Will Call You (Camino del Sol ) By Tim Z. Hernandez Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780816534845
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Published: University of Arizona Press - January 28th, 2017

Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) By Peter Orner (Editor), Luis Urrea (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Peter Orner (Editor), Luis Urrea (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781786632272
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Published: Verso - July 25th, 2017

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Signs Preceding the End of the World By Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator) Cover Image
By Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781908276421
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Published: And Other Stories - March 10th, 2015

How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) By Noel Ignatiev Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780415963091
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Published: Routledge - September 11th, 2008