Asian Americans In The Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Ko

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An all-new collection of fascinating interviews with students, lawyers, engineers, politicians, stay-at-home moms and activists, this book reveals a rich mosaic of Asian American identities. Candid and compelling, these Terkelesque interviews reveal intimate and at times conflicting thoguhts and feelings about race and identity; immigration and American cultures; the self in relation to family and community; relationships; school and work; and professional and educational achievement.

Joann Faung Jean Lee is the author of the oral histories Asian Americans and Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century, both published by The New Press, and of Asian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television. She currently teaches at William Paterson University and previously taught at Queens College, CUNY, and at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Lee was formerly a broadcast journalist for CNN. She lives in Northvale, New Jersey.