The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu.

"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 t...

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Uniform Title:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Main Author: Wu, Ellen D.
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Physical Description:xv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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