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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates[/quote]

That's fiction, and pretty bad.

OP, try The Making of Asian America, by Erika Lee. I'm reading it right now, and enjoying it and learning a ton!

(I'm not Asian, btw)[/quote]

Wouldn't take a rec from this person, who is either confused, stupid, or racist.[/quote]

OP, decide for yourself.

"The first Asians to come to North America, Lee writes, were Filipino sailors. They came aboard Spanish ships in the late fifteen-hundreds, and were subjected to such a torrent of vermin and filth on these vessels that half died en route; when they got to colonial Mexico, many refused to cross the Pacific again. They settled in Acapulco and married local women. Asian America began in desperation...

In the eyes of some, Asians in America are, Lee writes, “perpetual foreigners at worst, or probationary Americans at best.” If Asians sometimes remain silent in the face of racism, and if some seem to work unusually hard in the face of this difficult history, it is not because they want to be part of a “model minority” but because they have often had no other choice."

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas

"He associates this clichéd suburban idyll with what he calls “the Dream” — not the American dream of opportunity and a better life for one’s children; not Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of freedom and equality (which the Reverend King observed was “a dream deeply rooted in the American dream”), but instead, in Mr. Coates’s somewhat confusing use of the term, an exclusionary white dream rooted in a history of subjugation and privilege....There is a Manichaean tone to some of the passages in this book, and at times, a hazardous tendency to generalize."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/books/review-in-between-the-world-and-me-ta-nehisi-coates-delivers-a-desperate-dispatch-to-his-son.html[/quote]

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