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Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype
Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.
by
Viet Thanh Nguyen
via
TIME
on
June 26, 2020
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How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon
In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.
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The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
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The Forever War Over War Literature
A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.
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