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The ‘invented fiction’ of the model minority and the controversy behind the JA Creed

January 1, 2015 by ART HANSEN, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor Leave a Comment

THE COLOR OF SUCCESS: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority By Ellen D. Wu (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014, 376 pp., $39.50, hard cover) SACRIFICING SOLDIERS ON THE NATIONAL MALL By Kristin Ann Hass (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, 262 pp., $29.95, paperback) These books by Ellen Wu and […]