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Today Houston is one of the most diverse and cosmopolitan US cities. Anglos, White people who are not Latino make up 24.6 percent of the population. African Americans make up 22.5 percent, and the Latino population is 44.8 percent of the city. Asian Americans make up nearly 7 percent of the population, and Houston has the largest Nigerian populatio
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
THE DAY of our departure
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
I had a Caribbean American friend who was a waitress, and her father was a veteran. Every time she went to a restaurant—every single time—she had to wonder if they were going to get good service or be seated in the back and ignored.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
More so than any other cultural or ethnographic artifact, the gendered hula dancer—or as she is known more familiarly in Americana, the “hula girl”—has come to represent Hawai‘i.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
And even though we saw the darkness coming we said nothing and let them dream on.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
With the start of autumn, starving people descended upon the banks of the Tumen River in droves. Those who had relatives in China crossed over in search of food and money; survivors who’d lost loved ones surged across the border along with workers from factories that had shut down, vowing to bring back money and save their families. No one dared to
... See moreSok-yong Hwang • Princess Bari
Estimates of Haiti’s pre-Columbian population range as high as eight million people. When Christopher Columbus returned
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
roundly rebuked by some members of their own communities.