Zelizer, Julian

"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"-peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values-in the …

The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal p…