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Asian American experiences in the United States : oral histories of first to fourth generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia by Joann Faung Jean Lee
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E184.O6 L44 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans--Biography.
- Asian Americans.
- Oral history.
- Asian Americans--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1991.
- Contents:
- To be more Japanese / Henry Moritsugu
- To be more American / Cao O
- Looking American / Alicia Diem
- No tea, thank you / Setsuko K.
- Tensions / Mono Sen
- Being Indian in Jersey City / Hardayal Singh
- Racial hatred / Madhu S. Chawla
- Different by choice / Sudershan S. Chawla
- On being Asian American / Phil Nash ... [et al.]
- Minorities within / Cao O, Lang Ngan, Alicia Diem
- The power of duty / Rose Eng
- Permanent sojourner / Ng Hing
- Men without women / Vicotr Merina
- Growing old / C. Ng
- Life as a senior / Katie Lee
- Food and Mah-jong / Tony Hom
- Obligation / Cao O
- Bossa / Valerie Corpus
- Company is family / Hideo K.
- Koreans and church / Charles Ryu
- Family gathering / Sue Jean Lee Suettinger.
- Ancestors / Chin Cai Ping, Cao O, Tony Hom
- Advance purchase / Wong Chun Yau
- One god / Alicia Diem
- Immigration theology / Wontae Chu
- Twenty-five years / Jim and Kate Mishra
- Biting the bullet / Vivian Hom Fentress
- Chinese wedding / Mark Fentress
- So he's not a Jewish doctor / Jody Sandler Hom
- It all worked out / Tony Hom
- Never Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Betty Ann Bruno
- A male human being / Phil Tajitsu Nash
- Eurasian / Joann Patricia Prosser.
- Growing up in Mississippi / Sam Sue
- Then came the war / Yuri Kockiyama
- Japanese Barbie dolls / Mari K.
- Born and raised in Hawaii, but not Hawaiian / Andrea Kim
- To be true Hawaiian / Will Hao
- West side story / Sue Jean Lee Suettinger
- Visiting the homeland / Victor Merina
- 1.5 generation / Charles Ryu
- Khmer masks / Kim Huot Kiet
- The success story / Lang Ngan
- Out of communism / Alicia Diem
- Where to from here? / Kenny and Siu Wing Lai
- Recently arrived / David Lee
- Greedy about life again / Wong Chun Yau
- Still on the move / Chin Cai Ping
- One more degree / Valerie Corpus
- Traffic cops / Lang Ngan
- Traffic cops II / Kim Huot Kiet
- Traffic cops III / Charles Ryu.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0899505856 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 22662364
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