
The Color of Success
Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
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Emily Zeller
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Ellen D. Wu
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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 20th century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership.
Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders.
By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
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- How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
- De: R. Marie Griffith
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control - sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion.
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Very thorough
- De Ellen Gilmartin en 10-12-19
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The Second Coming of the KKK
- The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
- De: Linda Gordon
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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By legitimizing bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands reexamination today. Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged our preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through violence and lynching had established a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South.
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Necessary History
- De S. Summers en 01-29-18
De: Linda Gordon
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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- De: Mitchell Duneier
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
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Our Divided Political Heart
- The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
- De: E. J. Dionne
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- De: Pieter M. Judson
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.
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Ideal for students of empires, nationalism, minorities and ethnic groups
- De Uther en 02-11-17
De: Pieter M. Judson
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
- A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- De: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrado por: Beresford Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality: the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed so much to begin a more vocal and radical push for social change in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Decent Introduction, not thorough at all
- De Grover en 07-29-14
De: Peniel E. Joseph
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China in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In this fully revised and updated third edition, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies that largely define China's present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce listeners to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization.
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Amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 07-11-20
De: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, y otros
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1620
- A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
- De: Peter W. Wood
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance.
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I'm Sympathetic, but wanting balance, not found.
- De Anonymous User en 11-21-20
De: Peter W. Wood
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Rule and Ruin
- The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
- De: Geoffrey Kabaservice
- Narrado por: Michael Bulter Murray
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seemed, had suddenly become a party of ideological purity. Except this development is not new at all.
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Kabaservice doesn't make the case
- De MJE en 01-22-16
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The Anatomy of Fascism
- De: Robert O. Paxton
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete, what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up "enemies of the state", through Mussolini's rise to power, to Germany's fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxton shows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others.
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Great book for getting a clearer idea of fascism
- De Amazon Customer en 11-02-17
De: Robert O. Paxton
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The narrator needs to research pronunciation
The book covered its topic well with good anecdotes, data and facts to describe how Asian assimilation created the myth of a "model minority" and was used to further discrimination against blacks. I am a sansei who was raised to be a model citizen after my mother was humiliated and scarred by WWII internment. I didn't question the philosophy of keeping my head down and getting all A's in school until I learned about internment when I was in high school. i related to the book and felt it covered the topic well. I hadn't thought much about how Asian Americans' "model" status was used to put down blacks, but the point is well taken. My problem with the Audible version is the narrator who misread and mispronounced several names and terms. Before getting paid to read a book, one should study the vocabulary and present it correctly. I haven't seen a print copy, so I may be wrong, but she said "homogeny" where "hegemony" was more appropriate and "comprise" where "compromise" made more sense. Other mistakes were "Gila" with a hard "g" instead of "hee-la," "Too-el" for "Tule" (pronounced too-lee) for names of internment camps. She said "Ku-ro-MO-bo" when it is pronounced "Ku-ROMrom-bo," the Japanese term for blacks and "Ha-KOO-jin" (with emphasis on second syllable) when it is correctly pronounced "Ha-ku-jeen," (no noticeable emphasis) the Japanese term for whites. The black singer is Paul Robeson (pronounced robe-son in two syllables), not Ro-be-son as she said it. And finally, Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii is pronounced "ee-NOH-oo-eh" not "in-NEW-yeh." I'm almost surprised she said "Fong" correctly. Admittedly most of the mispronunciations were of Japanese words, but when you read a book about Asians, you should expect to encounter such terms and prepare for them. For me, the poor narrator detracted from my full enjoyment of this book.
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