Balancing two worlds : Asian American college students tell their life stories /
Balancing Two Worlds highlights themes surrounding the creation of Asian American identity. This book contains fourteen first-person narratives by Asian American college students, most of whom have graduated during the first five years of the twenty-first century. Their engaging accounts detail the...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007
Ithaca,, N.Y. : 2007 Ithaca : 2007 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Asian Americans : "now becoming aware of their own personality" / by Russell C. Leong
- Generating new identities Sticks and salt / Phuoc Nguyen
- Distilling my Korean American identity / Patrick S.
- Turning against myself / Amy Lee
- Challenging the "model minority" label. Receding past, advancing future / Kenneth Lee
- Balancing on the hyphen / Fuyuki Hirashima
- Korea is my heart and soul, America is my mind and spirit / Leah Lee
- Origins and ethnicities. In search of a sangam / Asha Gupta
- A Muslim citizen of the democratic West / Aly Rahim
- American pie / Dean Krishna
- My permanent home / Sabeen Hassanali
- What are you?. A little plot of no-man's-land / Ki Mae Ponniah Heussner
- Multihued / Anthony R. Luckett
- Emerging diversities. No such thing-- / Johnny Lee
- Farewell my tung-tew / Vincent Ng
- Afterword : revolution and revelations : the personal journey and the definition of community / by Vernon Takeshita.
- Introduction : Asian Americans : "now becoming aware of their own personality / Russell C. Leong
- Sticks and salt / Phuoc Nguyen
- Distilling my Korean American identity / Patrick S.
- Turning against myself / Amy Lee
- Receding past, advancing future / Kenneth Lee
- Balancing on the hyphen / Fuyuki Hirashima
- Korea is my heart and soul, America is my mind and spirit / Leah Lee
- In search of a Sangam / Asha Gupta
- A Muslim citizen of the democratic west / Aly Rahim
- American pie / Dean Krishna
- My permanent home / Sabeen Hassanali
- A little plot of no-man's-land / Ki Mae Ponniah Heussner
- Multihued / Anthony R. Luckett
- No such thing ... / Johnny Lee
- Farewell my Tung-Tew / Vincent Ng
- Afterword : revolution and revelations : the personal journey and the definition of community / Vernon Takeshita