SHOWDOWN
When Vietnamese immigrants who had resettled on the Texas Gulf Coast got a toehold in the local fishing industry, white fishermen were spoiling for a fight.
Kirk Wallace Johnson is the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon. His other books include The Feather Thief and To Be a Friend Is Fatal, and he is the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, which he started after serving with USAID in Fallujah. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and on This American Life, among others.