Word: asian-american
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...Scotch tape and stick it across my eyelid, to emulate what I thought was white American beauty. I used to dye my hair, wear colored contacts, the gamut, in order for me to feel like I was successful in blending into my environment." That environment included few Asian-American girls like herself. Now, at 26, she is determined to make heard the voices of Asian-American girls. Nam is the editor and moving force behind "Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American," a paperback original just published by Quill/HarperCollins...
...Asian-American girls between the ages of 14 and 21 contributed essays to Nam's book. The girls in the book talk honestly about body images, family conflicts, dating and so on. "At home, they're dealing with a whole series of cultural expectations placed on them by their parents," says Nam. "Then they enter the public sphere, and interact with their peers. Often, they grow up in environments where they were perhaps one of the only Asian-American girls in their school. So you're dealing with a lot of identity issues." Nam says that these girls are confronted...
...UNDER COVER: Kenji Yoshino, a gay Asian-American law professor at Yale, is outraged by the way that people of minority cultures are encouraged, or ordered, to hide cultural trademarks such as cornrows or yarmulkes. PW reports that Random House has purchased a book called "Covering: An Assault on Assimilation" for "a very handsome six figures." The book grew out of a NYT story that Yoshino wrote. Random House plans to publish the book in late 2003 or early...
...Members of an Asian student group and other activists held a rally in April on the steps of The Crimson to protest an inflammatory opinion piece written by an Asian-American Crimson editor...
Nakamura is so enamored of the colorful chunks of metal that in 1994 he named his magazine after the mightiest of them all, Giant Robot. The hip 'zine delves into Asian-American culture and spots the latest trends from across the Pacific - from wasabi-flavored potato chips to schoolgirl porn. Today's toy robots, says Nakamura dismissively, tend to be cobbled together with cheap plastic. Die-cast robots, on the other hand, are emblematic of the kind of Japanese craftsmanship that transformed the nation's image from shoddy imitator in the 1960s to technological leader just a decade later...