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Conrad Fischer on Americans and Doctors

Dr. Conrad Fischer, author of Routine Miracles: Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine, stopped by the Zócalo office to tell us how Americans feel about their doctors, how med students feel about becoming doctors, and why we should start considering our healthcare providers as heroes.

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How One Family Created Chinese America

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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.

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