Search Results for: Growing Up In America

People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents

When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the “true myth” of America. Beginning from this assertion, Emi

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades follo

A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, s

Vietnamese Americans form a unique segment of the new U.S. immigrant population. Uprooted from their homeland and often thrust into poor urban neighborhoods, th