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...John Y. Hsu ’03 and Arar Han, “Asian American” is more than a vague racial category—it serves as a powerful collective identity from which diverse individual Asian American personalities spring. In Asian American X, released this past August, Hsu and Han impart the experience of being Asian American through a compilation of 35 short essays by college-aged Asian American authors from across the country...
...said in a phone call that he and Han thought about the potential danger involved in endorsing the “Asian American” label, since labels often beget stereotypes...
...Han grew up together in Cupertino, CA, where they say Asians are in the majority. They agree that, as young Asian Americans coming of age in “a suburban Asian enclave,” it was relatively easy for them to establish strong individual identities outside of their collective Asian American identity...
...Han say they began formulating the idea for their book as college sophomores, Hsu at Harvard, Han at Boston College. In March 2001, The Crimson published Justin G. Fong ’03’s op-ed piece entitled “The Invasion.” He accused Asian American Harvard students of reinforcing Asian American stereotypes...
...piece provoked heated debate among students on a number of college campuses. Han wrote a letter to The Crimson in response. She admitted that Fong’s accusations may have been too strong, but immediately recognized the necessity of his outcry. “He had hit a raw nerve in college communities that needed to be tapped, and a productive discussion had begun,” she said in a phonecall...