In poetic prose, Ocean Vuong writes a letter to his mother who cannot read. He paints a portrait of his family with roots in Vietnam and war, talks through his feelings about being the son of Vietnamese immigrants, and shares intimate stories about his first love and heartbreaking losses...
Following in the wake of the Chinese immigrants marked the Japanese immigrants as a part of that group, and resulted in a negative attitude towards the Japanese immigrants almost immediately and this negative attitude lasted for more than 50 years. War with Japan during WWII brought prejudice and ...
story of America and in the meaning of democracy. Includes 'Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey,' by Jean Van Leeuwen; 'The Ballot Box Battle,' by Emily Arnold McCully; 'Coming to America: The Story of Immigration,' by Betsy Maestro's Americans are related to immigrants.Inst...
In 1993 Brown joined the faculty at Exeter as an English and creative-writing teacher. Several years later theU.S. Secret Servicevisited the school to interview a student who had written an e-mail in which he joked about killing the president. The incident sparked Brown’s interest in covert...
Faithful in Small Things: How to Serve the Needy When You’re One of Themby Kevin Wiebe (Herald, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5138-0774-4). Wiebe, who grew up in deep poverty, now pastors a “low-resource” church of mostly low-income immigrants. He exposes gaps i...
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who easily defeated more-mainstream Republican candidates such asJeb BushandTed Cruzin the primaries. Trump’s far-right social positions and outspoken hostility toward immigrants made a number of mainstream Republicans concerned that he was setting the party up for a Goldwater-esque landslide electoral...
This is an upper elementary, lower middle school read. Aref is 7 in the book the language feels somewhat young. It was a great in many ways. It was a love letter to Michigan, Oman, and immigrants. Aref is forced to move from Oman and his grandfather to Ann Arbor so his parents coul...
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American enough to argue with her parents over Japanese aggression in Manchuria, Japanese enough to be interned as an alien. The question always hovers in the background: Is America an idea into which I must fit, or will America, a nation of immigrants, allow my views to become part of ...