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combines two techniques. The first is the normal way we evoke memory. Simply remember back to when you were younger. Now pick a certain age, or a certain place you have lived in, and remember it. Now remember an even earlier time. What is
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“The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.”
― Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War
― Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“The nation had turned its back on the sacrifices of these men and had “repressed the details of the shameful abandonment of those goals for which they had given their lives.” That betrayal of both the ideal of democracy and the memory of those who gave their lives for it haunted the country. It was a denial of the past, of history and its relevance to American life and its significance to any robust sense of American individuality and identity. “A discontinuity had been”
― We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
― We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
“President Johnson and others would turn out to be wrong about who would come through the door. The law—actually, a series of amendments to the McCarran-Walter Act—would unleash a tide of immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and set in motion a demographic transformation of the country that is still unfolding today. By 1970, the Chinese population in the United States would grow to more than 430,000 people, almost double what it had been a decade earlier. The number would continue to double every ten years until the end of the century. Since 1965, about a quarter of immigrants to the United States have been Asian. They have become the country’s fastest-growing ethnic population. Today, there are more than five million Chinese Americans in the United States.”
― Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
― Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Jacqueline’s 2025 Year in Books
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