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100 1 Shih, David,|d1970-|eauthor.
245 10 Chinese prodigal|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] /
|cDavid Shih.
264 1 New York :|bAtlantic Monthly Press,|c2023.
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505 0 Chinese prodigal -- The Book of Genesis -- It's not fair -
- Affirmative action hire -- Loving story -- Madame Chu's
-- Paper son -- Eleven and a half pounds.
520 "From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of
American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring
Asian American identity in a racially codified country.
After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to
unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex
relationship between him and his parents--a question that
ultimately forced a reckoning with the expectations he
encountered as the only son of Chinese immigrants and the
realities of what it means to be Asian in a segregated
country. Chinese Prodigal is a candid examination of a
society and the people it has never made space for. In
public life and in Shih's own, "Asian Americanness" has
changed shape constantly, directed by the needs of the
country's racial imaginary. A sliding scale, visibility
for Asians in America has always been relative, something
that only comes into focus when it aligns with broader
political agendas. Structured as a memoir in essays,
Chinese Prodigal examines the emergence of "Asian
American" in a post-Civil Rights America, from the moment
the concept took political hold with the construction of
the model minority myth, then galvanizing in the wake of
the death of Vincent Chin in 1980s Detroit, and on through
the vexed place of Asians and Asian Americans in the right
-wing effort to dismantle affirmative action and remake
public education. Present in the food we eat, the jobs we
take, and the ways we parent, the process of becoming an
American is defined by who and what you must sacrifice to
survive and excel. A work of rare subtlety, Chinese
Prodigal offers a new vocabulary for understanding a
racial hierarchy too often conceptualized as binary. It is
a moving testimony of a son, father, and citizen stepping
outside the expectations imposed on him"--|cProvided by
publisher.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bLaVergne|cGrove Atlantic|d2023
|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
600 10 Shih, David,|d1970-
650 0 Chinese Americans|zWisconsin|zEau Claire|vBiography.
650 0 Chinese Americans|zTexas|zDallas|vBiography.
650 0 Chinese Americans|xRace identity.
650 0 Fathers and sons|zTexas|zDallas.
651 0 United States|xRace relations.
651 0 Eau Claire (Wis.)|vBiography.
651 0 Dallas (Tex.)|vBiography.
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