The Life And Times Of A Hyphenated American

Author : Young Park
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595375375
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of a Hyphenated American written by Young Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing about the past helps to explain why I am discontent and continuously angry. I am reminded that America is a society dominated by religious fundamentalism and racism. After a time, I rejected the White American world and went to Asia, seeking another basis for my identity. My identity is still in question. I cannot become an Asian and although I was born in this country, I am not accepted as an American citizen. As my birth certificate clearly states - I am not of an accepted racial color.

Author : James TenEyck
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1683482077
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Walter Reuther written by James TenEyck and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Times of Walter Reuther: An Unfinished Liberal Legacy recounts the events and social movements that have shaped modern America and examines Reuther’s involvement in them. For over thirty years, Walter Reuther and his United Automobile Workers union were in the vanguard of voices advancing liberal economic and social policies that raised the standard of living for many Americans, extended the protection of the law, and provided a measure of security for the aged, infirm, disabled, and unemployed. In the narrative, Reuther serves as the lens through which a period of labor advances, civil rights struggle, and hot and cold wars are viewed from a liberal perspective. The book follows Walter and Victor Reuther on their European adventure to their ancestral homeland during the rise of Hitler and into the Gorky autoworks factory in Soviet Russia. The pair returned home to the labor battles in Flint and Dearborn that established a UAW presence in the factories and brought Walter Reuther to the bargaining table to negotiate the agreements that served as the treaty between labor and management for over two decades. Reuther’s story includes assassination attempts, confrontations with Senator Goldwater and Nikita Khrushchev, and a presence on the world stage and on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Martin Luther King recounted his dream. In the later chapters, the book looks beyond the life of the man and the events of his time and seeks to advance a liberal legacy that recently has been relentlessly attacked and too timidly defended.

Author : Geoffrey Wawro
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093922
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons of Freedom written by Geoffrey Wawro and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "stirring," definitive history of America's decisive role in winning World War I (Wall Street Journal). The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But as Geoffrey Wawro shows in Sons of Freedom, the French and British were on the verge of collapse in 1918, and would have lost the war without the Doughboys. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, described the Allied victory as a "miracle" -- but it was a distinctly American miracle. In Sons of Freedom, prize-winning historian Geoffrey Wawro weaves together in thrilling detail the battles, strategic deliberations, and dreadful human cost of the American war effort. A major revision of the history of World War I, Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the United States as the greatest of the great powers.

Author : Marn J. Cha
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761852212
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koreans in Central California (1903-1957) written by Marn J. Cha and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in the early 20th century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).

Author : Edward Alfred Steiner
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781407667300
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confession of a Hyphenated American written by Edward Alfred Steiner and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Nicole Draffen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997488128
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HYPHENED-NATION written by Nicole Draffen and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyphened-Nation was inspired by my travels overseas, and time spent living in the United Kingdom. Living abroad was an eye opening experience, I grew to understand certain aspects of American culture better, the longer I lived overseas. This book is about my insights, and experience of being treated as a pure American, rather than as a hyphenated one. The difference was startling, and lead me on a journey to understand why The United States is one of the only, if not the only country, that hyphenates its citizens by ethnicity before nationality. Those same boxes we allow ourselves to be placed into as hyphenated-Americans, limit our economic, educational, societal and cultural growth. This book focuses on ways the U.S. and Europe differ culturally via media, and how a bridge might be created. I hope this book inspires you to join the movement and, "Don't Check the Box". Be a catalyst for positive change. Your stories and insights will help to light everyone's path to a brighter future.

Author : Matthew D. Kim
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 1683593790
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Our Voice written by Matthew D. Kim and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one preaches in a cultural vacuum. The message of what God has done in Christ is good news to all, but to have the greatest impact on its hearers--or even to be understood at all--it must be culturally contextualized. Finding Our Voice speaks clearly to an issue that has largely been ignored: preaching to Asian North American (ANA) contexts. In addition to reworking hermeneutics, theology, and homiletics for these overlooked contexts, Kim and Wong include examples of culturally-specific sermons and instructive questions for contextualizing one's own sermons. Finding Our Voice is essential reading for all who preach and teach in ANA contexts. But by examining this kind of contextualization in action, all who preach in their own unique contexts will benefit from this approach.

Author : Randy Ribay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525554920
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patron Saints of Nothing written by Randy Ribay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.

Author : Yoram Dinstein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423044
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 20 (1990) written by Yoram Dinstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yoram Dinstein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004638784
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Protection of Minorities and Human Rights written by Yoram Dinstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of modern international law, manifold treaties (especially peace treaties) have recognized the rights of specific minorities in specific territories. Today -- with Eastern Europe once more in turmoil and with minority groups all over the world clamouring for recognition -- there is a growing awareness that, irrespective of the observance of the fundamental freedoms of individuals, minority groups have their legitimate interests that must be appreciated and accommodated. This collection of essays grew out of an international legal colloquium, held at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University in March 1990. Some of the papers have already been published in volume 20 of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, but others are printed here for the first time. The authors come from different parts of the world and represent different legal backgrounds. They are by no means at one in their analysis of the human rights of minority groups, but they all share the sense that problems of minorities cannot be brushed aside or glossed over. It is not too hazardous to forecast that these problems will actually intensify in the 21st century. Whereas they cannot be solved through exclusively legal means, international and constitutional lawyers must do their utmost to identify flash points and to offer at least some prescriptive guidelines. This is the principal purpose of the present volume.