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...Hsu and Han say they found their imperative in the fury with which the Asian American community reacted to Fong’s j’accuse. “We a saw a collective yearning to be understood and heard,” Han said...
...Hsu and 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...
...Hsu remembered having conversations with Han early on in college during which they would remark how strikingly different their college experiences were from high-school. Han said she felt as though she did not belong at Boston College and wondered why. She credited her discussions with Hsu and to an even greater degree Fong’s article with crystallizing this sentiment and inciting her to action...
...Hsu also identified the desire to understand the prerogative of other Asian Americans across the country as the creative impetus for Asian American...
Thus began Hsu and Han’s three-year collaboration on Asian American X, modeled after the spirit of important works such as Eric Liu’s The Accidental Asian, Richard Rodriguez’s The Hunger of Memory and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s The Bondswoman’s Narrative...