Asian Americans

Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the new Asian American experience, about which little writing exists to date. In Asian Americans, these immigrants and their families present their own stories--why they came to America and what it means to be Asian in America today.

Introduction

vii

I. Living in America

1

(54)

Growing Up in Mississippi

3

(7)

Sam Sue

Then Came the War

10

(9)

Yuri Kochiyama

Japanese Barbie Dolls

19

(5)

Mari K.

Born and Raised in Hawaii, but Not Hawaiian

24

(8)

Andrea Kim

To Be True Hawaiian

32

(6)

Will Hao

West Side Story

38

(7)

Sue Jean Lee Suettinger

Visiting the Homeland

45

(5)

Victor Merina

1.5 Generation

50

(5)

Charles Ryu

II. Aspects of Americanization

55

(118)

Exodus

Khmer Masks

57

(5)

Kim Huot Kiet

The Success Story

62

(4)

Lang Ngan

Out of Communism

66

(4)

Alicia Diem

Where To from Here?

70

(6)

Kenny

Siu Wing Lai

On the Bumpy Road

Recently Arrived

76

(2)

David Lee

Greedy about Life Again

78

(4)

Wong Chun Yau

Still on the Move

82

(2)

Chin Cai Ping

One More Degree

84

(4)

Valerie Corpus

Traffic Cops

88

(6)

Lang Ngan

Traffic Cops II

94

(2)

Kim Huot Kiet

Traffic Cops III

96

(3)

Charles Ryu

Americanization

To Be More Japanese

99

(5)

Henry Moritsugu

To Be More American

104

(3)

Cao O

Looking American

107

(1)

Alicia Diem

No Tea, Thank You

108

(2)

Setsuko K.

Tensions

110

(2)

Mono Sen

Being Indian in Jersey City

112

(4)

Hardayal Singh

Racial Hatred

116

(2)

Madhu S. Chawla

Different by Choice

118

(3)

Sudershan S. Chawla

On Being Asian American

121

(14)

Phil Nash

Vivian Hom Fentress

Sam Sue

Will Hao

Cao O

Tony Hom

Victor Merina

Carolyn Ayon Lee

Charles Ryu

Henry Moritsugo

Minorities Within

135

(5)

Cao O

Lang Ngan

Alicia Diem

Family

The Power of Duty

140

(3)

Rose Eng

Permanent Sojourner

143

(1)

Ng Hing

Men without Women

144

(2)

Victor Merina

Growing Old

146

(4)

C. Ng

Life as a Senior

150

(2)

Katie Lee

Food and Mah-jongg

152

(2)

Tony Hom

Obligation

154

(1)

Cao O

Bossa

155

(2)

Valerie Corpus

Company Is Family

157

(5)

Hideo K.

Religion and Rites within Family

Koreans and Church

162

(3)

Charles Ryu

Family Gathering

165

(1)

Sue Jean Lee Suettinger

Ancestors

166

(3)

Chin Cai Ping

Cao O

Tony Hom

Advance Purchase

169

(1)

Wong Chun Yau

One God

170

(1)

Alicia Diem

Immigration Theology

171

(2)

Wontae Chu

III. Reflections on Interracial Marriage

173

(54)

Twenty-five Years

175

(6)

Jim

Kate Mishra

Biting the Bullet

181

(5)

Vivian Hom Fentress

Chinese Wedding

186

(8)

Mark Fentress

So He's Not a Jewish Doctor

194

(9)

Jody Sandler Hom

It All Worked Out

203

(5)

Tony Hom

Never Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

208

(8)

Betty Ann Bruno

A Male Human Being

216

(4)

Phil Tajitsu Nash

Eurasian

220

(7)

Joann Patricia Prosser

Postcript to the paperback edition

227

(6)

Index

233

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