Sungmin Kim từ Kanjwani, Pakistan

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05/09/2024

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2020-08-04 09:54

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I just *had* to read this book while working on a APA Heritage Month project celebrating Asian American unity, didn't I? Eric Liu, a speechwriter for the Clinton administration, writer for Slate magazine, and professor at University of Washington, writes candidly about growing up as the son of solidly middle-class Chinese American parents from Taiwan. Though billed an overachiever (Liu questions who sets those standards, anyway), he repeatedly pushes the envelope by doing "non-Asian" things: joining the wrestling team, majoring in politics, working in DC. These experiences are cast against his hesitation to identify as Asian American, a group that others easily lay claim to him with. Liu problematizes the Asian American identity, pointing out that it is a group artificially created for political organizing and that Asian Americans come from incredibly disparate cultures and socioeconomic experiences. What is there to unify us? When does someone "become" Asian American? I found his questions very thought-provoking, particularly as a multigenerational (that's a term of mine) Chinese American. In college, I often prefered to be identified more broadly as Asian American than Chinese American, as to distance myself from being Chinese, really... I was part of the Asian American student groups, but didn't want anything to do with the more ethnic Chinese Student Association. I didn't want to have to continually explain away the shame of not speaking Cantonese/Mandarin. I find now that being identified as Asian American is useful insofar as it doesn't stop you from building coalitions more broadly with other ethnic groups -- ie, why should I identify more closely with people of Samoan descent than Irish descent? Great, quick read.

Người đọc Sungmin Kim từ Kanjwani, Pakistan

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.