Jon Jeter dropped by Zócalo to discuss his new book, Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People. Jeter, formerly the Washington Post's bureau chief in South America and S...
Gregg Easterbrook was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, but has lived with his former foreign service officer wife on most every continent. But, he says, “My favorite place on Earth is Seatt...
It’s the best of countries and the worst of countries. India will become the world’s next economic and technological powerhouse. India will remain corrupt, backward, an...
Women don’t yet rule the world, but, according to the trends, they soon will. In 1970, fewer than 5 percent of U.S. working wives earned higher salaries than their husbands. Today, almost 40 per...
The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
by Mae Ngai
Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.
