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Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form
to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of
contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary
aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive
imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist, offering
artistic shape to their linked political and economic struggles.
Long Le-Khac explores the work of writers such as Sandra Cisneros,
Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot Diaz, and Aimee Phan. He shows how their
fictions capture the uneven economic opportunities of the
post-civil rights era, the Cold War as it exploded across Asia and
Latin America, and the Asian and Latin American labor flows
powering global capitalism today. Read together, Asian American and
Latinx literatures convey astonishing diversity and untapped
possibilities for coalition within the United States'
fastest-growing immigrant and minority communities; to understand
the changing shape of these communities we must see how they have
formed in relation to each other. As the U.S. population approaches
a minority-majority threshold, we urgently need methods that can
look across the divisions and unequal positions of the racial
system. Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America leads the way
with a vision for the future built on panethnic and cross-racial
solidarity.
Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form
to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of
contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary
aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive
imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist, offering
artistic shape to their linked political and economic struggles.
Long Le-Khac explores the work of writers such as Sandra Cisneros,
Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot Diaz, and Aimee Phan. He shows how their
fictions capture the uneven economic opportunities of the
post-civil rights era, the Cold War as it exploded across Asia and
Latin America, and the Asian and Latin American labor flows
powering global capitalism today. Read together, Asian American and
Latinx literatures convey astonishing diversity and untapped
possibilities for coalition within the United States'
fastest-growing immigrant and minority communities; to understand
the changing shape of these communities we must see how they have
formed in relation to each other. As the U.S. population approaches
a minority-majority threshold, we urgently need methods that can
look across the divisions and unequal positions of the racial
system. Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America leads the way
with a vision for the future built on panethnic and cross-racial
solidarity.
Active queue management (AQM) has been proposed by networking
researchers and the Internet Engineering Task Force as a measure to
preserve and improve Internet performance but has not been
thoroughly evaluated under realistic conditions. This book
investigates the effects of several AQM algorithms on the
performance of TCP applications under realistic conditions. Our
primary results are that many existing AQM algorithms do not
perform as well as expected when they are used with packet
dropping. However, when combined with packet marking, AQM
algorithms significantly improve network and application
performance over conventional drop-tail queues. Moreover, AQM
enables network operators to run their networks near saturation
levels with only modest increases in average response times. If
packet marking is unavailable, the book presents a new form of
differential treatment of flows that can be used with packet
dropping and achieves a similar positive performance improvement.
The book also develops a new AQM algorithm that can balance between
loss rate and queuing delay to improve the overall system
performance.
Like earlier immigrants, today's legal immigrants are uprooted by a
common set of economic influences and have similar economic objects
in coming to America. Moreover, in spite of today's admission
criteria, there is still a self-selection process in which those
who expect a net gain are likely to migrate. Empirical evidence
shows that legal immigrants, with time and particularly for women,
are working. However, the correlation between income and education
is stronger than ever in the new economy. Lastly, because the U.S.
political system still offers inclusion for legal immigrants, they
are becoming more incorporated by both "choice" and "coercion."
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