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Eric Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written extensively on Vietnamese American and Black relations in New Orleans. His forthcoming book is titled Unsettled: America’s Refugees and the Struggle for a Just Resettlement.

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Anh "Joseph" Cao: The Surprises Are Just Beginning

Posted December 10, 2008 | 17:10:01 (EST)

On Sunday, December 6, Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao of New Orleans ousted nine-term Democrat William Jefferson from his House seat. Although Jefferson's campaign was doomed from the start by a corruption scandal, Cao's victory still took the nation by complete surprise. Here was a complete unknown, a Vietnamese American...

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