The American Dream

The American Dream - This is term encompasses both Takaki's chapter Pacific Crossings and Brodkin's How The Jew Became White. The American Dream was that anyone could go to America and become someone else with an ew reputation, leaving their previous conditions behind and head into a land of prosperity and opportunity. This dream was crushed when Asians were forced to do menial labor in Hawaii and were often discriminated against. They were refused citizen ship as Takaki mentions on p. 273. Brodkin also mentions how blacks and other minority races were discriminated against by whites throug hthe GI Bill, which gave whites opportunities for education and occupation, and the FHA, which gave whites the opportunity to move into new homes that were worth more. She mentions this on pp. 44-50.