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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lee, Joann Faung Jean, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [1991], ©1991.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Asian Americans > Biography.
Oral history.
Immigrants.
United States.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.