The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

Ellen D. Wu

376 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 tradi...

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