Month: July 2013

Author: Yuichiro Onishi Publisher: New York University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar A little-known fact about the famous African-American civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is that he traveled to Europe, Africa and Asia several times, including in 1936 to Nazi Germany, China and Japan. Why did he travel to these places? While racism was the main target of Du Bois’ polemics – and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment, as pointed out in Wikipedia, his main cause of fighting for equal rights included colored persons (probably including all non-Whites)...

Author: Elise Prebin Publisher: New York University Press Book Review by: Deekay Daulat More than 150,000 South Korean children of varying ages have been adopted by parents from countries outside Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953 up to 2001, according to a Wikipedia article. Almost two-thirds (99,061 of the total 150,349) of the adopting parents have been from the United States, including soldiers who fought in that war that separated Korea into North Korea and South Korea. Most of the other third (45,959) of the Korean children have been adopted by couples in 18 countries...

Author: Virginia Messina, with JL Fields Publisher: Da Capo Press – Lifelong Books (A member of the Perseus Books Group) Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi Many books have been written on the benefits of a plant-based diet, including the landmark work The China Study whose research findings proved conclusively that eating excessive amounts of meat was found to be one of the leading cause of deadly diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, hypertension, and others. That book was about conclusions arrived at from data gathered from thousands of people,  the subjects in the massive research studies conducted by...

Author: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Publisher: New York University Press – 273 pages Book Review by: Deekay Daulat During the World War II and early Cold War years from 1940s to the 1960s, Soviet Union propaganda asserted that the United States government practiced racism against Asian Americans through for example the mass internment of Japanese people residing in the U.S., who were also denied the right to American citizenship through naturalization. The Soviet propaganda campaigns also pointed out that other Asians (particularly the Chinese and Koreans) were being cast as foreign subversives and suspected Communist agents, whose activities needed monitoring,...