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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 communities into the national fold, charging that the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A major portrait of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became one of America's most respected critics of the Vietnam War, traces his Depression-era South Dakota childhood, wartime military service, establishment of the school lunch program and rise in the 1960s political arena.
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