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“kim parknelson”

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  • Invisible Asians

    Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

    by Kim ParkNelson ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees’ have been rendered racially invisible, and how that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    One of the most influential books ever published in America, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that describe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.The first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Du Bois was a sociologist ... Read more

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  • Common Ground

    A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by J. Anthony Lukas ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities.""An epic of American city life.. ... Read more

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  • Big Little Man

    In Search of My Asian Self

    by Alex Tizon ...
    "Alex Tizon fearlessly penetrates the core of not just what it means to be male and Asian in America, but what it means to be human anywhere."—Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling authorShame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his ... Read more

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  • The Color of Success

    Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

    by Ellen D. Wu ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Driven Out

    The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

    by Jean Pfaelzer ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in ... Read more

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  • Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005. Now, in this marvelously abridged, paperback edition, Michael J. Klarman has compressed his acclaimed study into tight focus around one major case--Brown v. Board of Education--making the path ... Read more

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  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

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  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Must Go

    Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

    by Beth Lew-Williams ...
    Winner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize“A powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.”—Richard White“A riveting, beautifully written account…that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and ... Read more

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  • How to Make Black America Better

    Leading African Americans Speak Out

    by Tavis Smiley ...
    Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach that includes Smiley’s own ten challenges to the African American ... Read more

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