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...smarter and savvier companies are now targeting other ethnic minorities. Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans, among the fastest-growing and most prosperous newcomers, are prized immigrant markets. More than 32% of Asian-American households earn an income of $50,000 or more, contrasted with 29% of Caucasian families. Last year those Asian households spent $120 billion on goods and services. Hispanics, who spend $180 billion, are also eagerly pursued. Since 1983, spending on Hispanic media, such as the TV station Telemundo and the newspaper La Opinion, has more than tripled, to $224 million. Immigrants fly back and call home often...
...Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be playing nearby. Theater? There's the modern-dance show Griot New York, directed by Jamaican-American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York's Asia Society is holding a show that tours the country next year featuring Asian-American visual artists...
What does make Thongthiraj unusual is her determination to win something more elusive than a career: to fashion a new identity out of the conflicting allegiances and double-edged stereotypes that plague the Asian-American psyche. Material success has bred resentment, envy, even backlashes of violence from such other subnationalities as blacks and Latinos; last year's Los Angeles riot was a vivid reminder of that vulnerability. The image of Asians as immigrant role models has also disguised the enduring poverty of some, as well as the political feebleness of the minority as a whole...
Chou responded that Asian-American literature is a "subdivision [of American literature], analogous to Puerto Rican-American, Jewish-American, or Italian-American literature...
...written in English," Chou said, indicating her belief that Asian-American literature should not be isolated...