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A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious

byRoya Hakakian

A Beginner’s Guide to America is Roya Hakakian's social inquiry of for the Immigrant and the Curious. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of humor and social science. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

240

ISBN

9780525656067