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

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

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