Word: assimilationism
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This book should change that. The Accidental Asian provides a perspective on race often ignored in America's black-white conversation. It is in part a collection of essays on racial identity and the place in American life occupied by the 10 million Americans who claim Asian descent. But it...
America at the century's dawn was a billboard of extravagant promise. And two new art forms, movies and the popular song, formed the flying wedge of American hegemony, sending a message of optimism and expansion all over the world. The movie narrative with its cozy moral, the 32-bar...
What, then, is greatness? In what does it reside? If a man's project fails, or survives only in irredeemably tarnished form, can the force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand...
"Immigrant Asian Buddhist communities will dieout, [due to assimilation] but the convertcommunities will become inclusive enough towelcome both Asian and non-Asian members," hesaid
In her lecture, Davidman historicized these stereotypes, noting they emerged in American culture in the period following World War II. It was during this period of time, she says, that the immigrant Jewish community as a whole reached a certain degree of affluence and assimilation in America.