Reading Identifications

identify the author and the title of the larger piece they are excerpted from,and explain what they show us about the period they were written in.

This is the passage:

Still being taught in Chinatown is the old idea that people should depend on their own efforts nota welfare check in order to reach Americas promised land.Visit Chinatown U.S.A.and you find an important racial minority group pulling itself upfrom hardship and discrimination to become a model of self-respect and achievement in todays America.At a time when it is being proposed that hundreds of billions be spent to uplift Negroes and other minorities, the nations 300,000 Chinese-Americans are moving ahead on their ownwith no help from anyone else.

This passage is from one of the following articles:

Mitsuye Yamada Ponders the Question of Loyalty

Franklin Roosevelt Urges Repeal of Chinese Exclusion

Written Bracero Contract Requests

Success Story of One Minority Group

Oscar Handlin Criticizes National – Origin Quotas

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