The New Minnesotans
Title | The New Minnesotans PDF eBook |
Author | Gregg Aamot |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN | 9780929636689 |
The author shares the challenges and realities immigrants and refugees face while assimilating to the Upper Midwest.
Somewhere in the Unknown World
Title | Somewhere in the Unknown World PDF eBook |
Author | Kao Kalia Yang |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1250296862 |
From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.
Scandinavians in the State House
Title | Scandinavians in the State House PDF eBook |
Author | Klas Bergman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781681340302 |
The story of Nordic immigrant influence in Minnesota politics and culture, and the lasting legacy of a "Scandinavian state in the New World."
The New Minnesotans
Title | The New Minnesotans PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN |
The New Minnesotans Toolkit
Title | The New Minnesotans Toolkit PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 15 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN |
Swedes in Minnesota
Title | Swedes in Minnesota PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Gillespie Lewis |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0873517539 |
A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.
This Much I Can Tell You
Title | This Much I Can Tell You PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Bookhouse Fulfillment |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781592984107 |
In the pages of This Much I Can Tell You, the voices of eighteen new Minnesotans, refugees and asylees from nine different countries, share stories of fear, courage, sorrow, and hope for enriched futures in the United States.