AltaMira Press
Pages: 240
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7619-9067-3 • Paperback • January 1999 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7591-1739-6 • eBook • January 1999 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Pyong Gap Min: Queens College of the City University of New York Rose Kim: Journalist
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 I. Pyong Gap Min: Ethnicity: Concepts, Theories, and Trends
Chapter 4 II. Ethnic Culture: An Identity in Conflict
Chapter 5 Rose Kim, My Trek
Chapter 6 Ruth Chung, Reflections on A Korean American Journey
Chapter 7 Alex Jeong, A Handicapped Korean in America
Chapter 8 III. Building Coalitions: A Pan-Asian or Non-White Identity?
Chapter 9 Kavitha Mediratta, How Do You Say Your Name?
Chapter 10 David Wang, Beyond the Golden Door
Chapter 11 Phuong Do, A Girl Called Hoai
Chapter 12 IV. Living in Two Worlds: A Bicultural Identity
Chapter 13 Sayuri Mori, Finding Myself
Chapter 14 Monica Jahan Bose, Multiple Identities
Chapter 15 Shay Sheth, An Indian Boy in American Clothes
Chapter 16 V. Blending In: Weak Attachments to the Ethnic Group
Chapter 17 Eriberto P. Lozada Jr., What Being Filipino American Means to Someone Called Fuji
Chapter 18 Joel de la Fuente, An (Asian American) Actor's Life
Chapter 19 Jean Hotta, My Own Family
Chapter 20 VI. A New World: The First Generation Experience
Chapter 21 Lakshmi Malroutu, The Balancing Act
Chapter 22 Margaret Y.M. Kan, Reaching the Glass Ceiling...at Home
Chapter 23 Hoang Diem Hau, An Unwilling Refugee
Chapter 24 Conclusion
Chapter 25 Bibliography
Struggle for Ethnic Identity is a welcome and valuable resource that brings out the human dimensions of the Asian American experience that are too often obscured by homogenizing stereotypes.....
— Keith Osajima
Few empirical studies had been done on Asian Americans in terms of personal experiences, cultural and ethnic identity, social status and economic conditions in the mainstream white society before this collection of 15 autobiographical essays....The most significant value of this collection is that it brings to light several common issues: racial prejudice and discrimination, interest in and criticism of ethnic subcultures, assimilation, and the search for one's ethnic identity....
— Suping Lu
• Winner, Honorable Mention, The 2001 Gustavas Myers Book Awards for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America