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...question-and-answer session following her reading, Chang said she encountered some difficulties in trying to get her work published. She said many American book publishers want Asian-American writers to include elements of the "exotic," while her book focuses on her mother's flight from China and the 1950s suburban lives of her mother and three of her friends as they adapted to the United States...
...example, there are no Asian-American or Latino-American history courses," he said. "That's a third of the population right there...
...Chanda: It's been an especially interesting experience for me as an Asian-American person coming to Harvard. I'm Taiwanese. One of the big things I get is, 'Where are you from? California? New York?' 'Oh I'm from Tennessee.' 'I didn't know there were Asian people from Tennessee.' I've gotten that so much and like, 'What are your parents doing there' and stuff like that. And I came from a high school where I was the only Asian American person in a class of 65 and then now I'm here and it's 20 percent...
...Vanguard Award by ABHW"). But more troubling is that a party attached to the event gave "free admision for black men arriving before 11 p.m." Do we really want to see social events with different prices for people of different races? I think racially-defined clubs, of which the 'Asian-American Christian Fellowship' is another example, create distrust in our society. Differential pricing takes the element of segregation to a worrying new level, and I wonder if it's even legal. Instead, I encourage Harvard students to welcome all kinds of other students into their social lives...
...recalls one of the more meaningful political experiences of his life. During his high school days in New York City, Lee volunteered for the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, an organization that helps poor residents of the city register to vote...