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Far from Home: Shattering the Myth of the Model Minority
Mary Chung, founder of the National Asian Women's Health Organization (NAWHO), shatters the myth that Asians are the model minority group in the U.S. and reveals the hidden health crisis that endangers 11 million people in the Asian American community. In the last decade, NAWHO has worked to established the facts to demonstrate how serious and widespread the problems are.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 1st 2003
by Tapestry Press
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Rights and Racism: Even as Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan was defending Plessy vs. Ferguson, he couldn’t stomach extending civil rights for everyone. “There is a race so different from our own,” he wrote in the landmark decision, “that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race.”
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The part about her life story is interesting. How her family dealt with and reacted to her sister's suicide was very memorable. This really struck a chord with me in how important it is talk about mental health and not deny, especially, the feelings of those close. What we do and how we act really affects others. Hayashi also goes into her professional networks for health education. Her health advise is mostly obvious but apparently not obvious to the immigrant communities who haven't heard it b...more
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