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lilacs_book_bower's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
4.0
This is a very thorough look at the various ways that Asian immigrants came to America and the challenges they faced. A common theme is that capitalist white America wanted cheap labor after slavery ended, so they would import and recruit people from a country, use and abuse them, and then feel like there were too many people who had come from the Asian country, and then pass laws against the immigrants. There were many riots and acts of violence against Asian communities. The latter part of the book discusses modern challenges to Asian immigrants and Asian Americans, such as quotas, prejudice and violence, and myths like the "model minority."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Slavery, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Death, Deportation, Genocide, Racism, Trafficking, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, War, and Xenophobia
gm_vak's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, Police brutality, Slavery, Trafficking, and War
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