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Author: Kun Lee Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479766933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 261
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This novel relates stories of new Chinese immigrants living in New York, United States. After China adopted the policy of reform and opened up to the outside world in the early 1980s, large numbers of Chinese went abroad and settled in the United States, a paradise they had dreamed of to go to. Chinatown was chosen by most of these new immigrants as their settlement, where they live and work. Chinatown is a place in the high and low were mixed together. The underworld stops at no evil nothing. They carry on extortions and organize the criminal activity of illegal immigration and brutal and bloody fights and killings between factions. The novel tells several new immigrant families, each of them has different experience in China’s mainland; after coming to U.S.A., in order to realize that “American Dream”, many of them worked hard day and night, full of entrepreneurial spirit and some started their own business from scratch. They want to train their children to become a useful person, enduring all kinds of hardships, place hopes on them. But in fact, some children did not take their study seriously, and some even went so far as to sink into degradation or even crimes. Thus, “the American dream” of some new immigrants shattered into pieces. A family of Wang Ming’s is an example among them. Father’s soul is hurt. Son’s body is injured, so they have to get back to the hometown to cure their suffering. This novel has stories that are vividly depicted, intricately plotted, and sometimes breathtaking.
Author: Kun Lee Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479766933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 261
Book Description
This novel relates stories of new Chinese immigrants living in New York, United States. After China adopted the policy of reform and opened up to the outside world in the early 1980s, large numbers of Chinese went abroad and settled in the United States, a paradise they had dreamed of to go to. Chinatown was chosen by most of these new immigrants as their settlement, where they live and work. Chinatown is a place in the high and low were mixed together. The underworld stops at no evil nothing. They carry on extortions and organize the criminal activity of illegal immigration and brutal and bloody fights and killings between factions. The novel tells several new immigrant families, each of them has different experience in China’s mainland; after coming to U.S.A., in order to realize that “American Dream”, many of them worked hard day and night, full of entrepreneurial spirit and some started their own business from scratch. They want to train their children to become a useful person, enduring all kinds of hardships, place hopes on them. But in fact, some children did not take their study seriously, and some even went so far as to sink into degradation or even crimes. Thus, “the American dream” of some new immigrants shattered into pieces. A family of Wang Ming’s is an example among them. Father’s soul is hurt. Son’s body is injured, so they have to get back to the hometown to cure their suffering. This novel has stories that are vividly depicted, intricately plotted, and sometimes breathtaking.
Author: William Attaway Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590178084 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway's novel is an unprecedented confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction. Blood on the Forge was first published in 1941, when it attracted the admiring attention of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It is an indispensable account of a major turning point in black history, as well as a triumph of individual style, charged with the concentrated power and poignance of the blues.
Author: Philippa Gates Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 081358941X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 305
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Pt. 1. Hollywood's Chinese America -- Introduction -- Yellow peril, protest, and an orientalist gaze: Hollywood's constructions of Chinese/Americans -- Pt. 2. Chinatown crime -- Imperilled imperialism: Tong wars, slave girls, and opium dens -- The whitening of Chinatown: action cops and upstanding criminals -- Pt. 3. Chinatown melodrama -- The perils of proximity: white downfall in the Chinatown melodrama -- Tainted blood: white fears of yellow miscegenation -- Pt. 4. Chinese American assimilation -- Assimilation and tourism: Chinese American citizens and Chinatown rebranded -- Assimilating heroism: the Chinese American as American action hero -- Epilogue
Author: Alwin Wiederhold Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0244835977 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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Two men meet at university in South Africa during the apartheid era. One is white and the other black. They become friends, not knowing they share a common past. Their friendship is tested by the brutal apartheid system where the government decides who you may love and where you may live and work based on the colour of your skin. For full-price sales of this book via the Lulu website the author will donate R5 to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.
Author: Ken Alder Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803224599 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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In this fascinating history of the lie detector, Ken Alder exposes some persistent truths about our culture: why we long to know the secret thoughts of our fellow citizens; why we believe in popular science; and why we embrace ?truthiness.? For centuries people searched in vain for a way to unmask liars, seeking clues in the body?s outward signs: in blushing cheeks and shifty eyes. Not until the 1920s did a cop with a PhD team up with an entrepreneurial high school student and claim to have invented a foolproof machine capable of peering directly into the human heart. Scientists repudiated the technique, and judges banned its results from criminal trials, but in a few years their polygraph had transformed police work, seized headlines, and enthralled the nation.ø In this book, Alder explains why America?and only America?has embraced this mechanical method of reading the human soul. Over the course of the twentieth century, the lie detector became integral to our justice system, employment markets, and national security apparatus, transforming each into a game of bluff and bluster. The lie detector device may not reliably read the human mind, but this lively account shows that the instrument?s history offers a unique window into the American soul.
Author: Andrea Mcardle Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814756328 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 315
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Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, vendors, and sexual minorities. The complexity of the problem requires a commensurate response, which Zero Tolerance fulfills with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law and society, women's studies, urban and cultural studies, labor history, and the visual arts, the essays assembled here complement, and provide a counterpoint, to the work of police scholars on this subject. Framed as both a response and a challenge to official claims that intensified law enforcement has produced New York City's declining crime rates, Zero Tolerance instead posits a definition of police brutality more encompassing than the use of excessive physical force. Further, it develops the connections between the most visible and familiar forms of police brutality that have sparked a new era of grassroots community activism, and the day-to-day violence that accompanies the city's campaign to police the "quality of life." Contributors include: Heather Barr, Paul G. Chevigny, Derrick Bell, Tanya Erzen, Dayo F. Gore, Amy S. Green, Paul Hoffman, Andrew Hsiao, Tamara Jones, Joo-Hyun Kang, Andrea McArdle, Bradley McCallum, Andrew Ross, Eric Tang, Jacqueline Tarry, Sasha Torres, and Jennifer R. Wynn.
Author: Chol Soo Lee Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824857941 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee’s wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan–Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year “Free Chol Soo Lee!” campaign that led to his release from San Quentin’s Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee’s own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds—war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row.
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