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"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
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MTV Entertainment Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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First MTV Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
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English
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Through a series of essays, poems and comics, thirty creators--including Melissa de la Cruz, Edmund Lee, Nathan Ramos-Park and Ellen K. Pao--give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, Hapa is now being embraced as a term of pride by many people of Asian or Pacific Rim mixed-race heritage. Award-winning film producer and artist Kip Fulbeck has created a forum in word and image for Hapas to answer the question they're nearly always asked: "What are you?" Fulbeck's frank, head-on portraits are paired with the sitters' own statements of identity. A work of intimacy,...
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