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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

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[ii] Kim and Hsieh describe the following “polarizing binaries of Asian American representation”: yellow peril perpetual foreigner model minority Erika Lee, Ph.D., Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

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John Muir Founds the Sierra Club

Teaching American History

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.