We range from pawns of the anti-affirmative action movement to organizers defending communities from deportation. This is Asian America, at least one telling of it. Echoing Juan González’s harvest of empire thesis, they have built communities here because of American imperialism there. To the extent that East Asians came by choice, Southeast Asian refugees did not. More than “culture” and Tiger Moms, this law explains the relative privilege of East Asian Americans today. I’m among the East Asian immigrants who benefited from the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished the 1924 Asian Exclusion Act. Born and raised in Taiwan, I moved to the U.S. Note: This review includes a mild spoiler.Īfter twenty-one years in this country, I finally got the math right.
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