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    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    par Ellen D. Wu ...
    Collections series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant ... En savoir plus

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  • Race and Retail

    Consumption across the Color Line

    Collections series Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
    Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses.Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail ... En savoir plus

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  • Warring over Valor

    How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    Collections series War Culture
    By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers two major insights into the history of military heroism. First, it reveals a precarious ambiguity in ... En savoir plus

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Quick Read edition

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