Accidental Asian Notes of a Native Speaker

Name: Accidental Asian Notes of a Native Speaker
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ISBN: 9780375704864

ISBN-10: 0375704868

ISBN-13: 9780375704864

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Liu

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Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his life as a second-generation Chinese American and reveals the shifting frames of ethnic identity. Finding himself unable to read a Chinese memorial book about his father's life, he looks critically at the cost of his own assimilation. But he casts an equally questioning eye on the effort to sustain vast racial categories like "Asian American." And as he surveys the rising anxiety about China's influence, Liu illuminates…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English