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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910 – 1940
. Library of Congress: HOC DOI Project, 1986. A powerful meditation on the experiences and poetry of Chinese detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
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High Fidelity.
New York: Riverhead Trade, 1996. An explorative novel of the relationship between pop music and happiness.
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Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. Rich text exploration motivations for black southerners to migrate north during the Great Migration.
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Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890 – 1930
. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. A history detailing the formation of Harlem as an African American neighborhood beginning with the Great Migration.