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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...
...Hsu 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...
...Hsu insists that Asian American X makes stereotyping impossible. “When you pick up this book you realize that there’s no single stereotype or image or phrase that captures what it means to be Asian American,” he said. “That’s why it’s Asian American X. ‘X’ is a variable...
...Hsu explains that the “X” also alludes to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Generation X, the film American History X and the concept of intersection...
...Hsu and 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...