The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
By: Wesley Yang
3.39
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex withou…
Want to Read $ 9.99"My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the midst of it: an “honorary white"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the midst of it: an “honorary white"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the midst of it: an “honorary white"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
"…it also emphasizes the danger of the improper sequencing of different elements of political development: too much rule of law too soon can strain the development of an effective state, as happened in India; electoral democracy introduced in the absence of an autonomous bureaucracy can lead to clientelism and pervasive corruption, as happened in Greece. Even the societies in which a proper balance of democracy, rule of law, and an effective state has been struck in the past are susceptible to political decay when rent-seeking extractive elite coalitions capture the state, as has happened in the United States."-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
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29. Samurai: A Concise History
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30. The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
By: Wesley Yang
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Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the mids…"-Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
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