An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy, Hardcover - Kenny Xu

From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, th...

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American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, a...

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Publisher: Association for Asian StudiesAuthor(s): Alisa FreedmanNumber of pages: 168Collection: Asia ShortsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x...

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Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States. Especially since the 1990s, readings by Asian American bibli...

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A reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different...

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, ra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rachel (The National Archives, UK) HillmanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 ...

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In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great dea...

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep beh...

With their apparent success in schools and careers, Asian Americans have long been viewed by white Americans as the "model minority." Yet few Ameri...

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Reducere. In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course o...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Michael MassingNumber of pages: 1008Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 48Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

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The struggle for Catholic emancipation in 19th century Britain and the shattering of the traditional flow of power that came with the crumbling of ...

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