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Chinese Americans -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Texas -- Dallas -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Race identity.
Fathers and sons -- Texas -- Dallas.
United States -- Race relations.
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Chinese prodigal : a...
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Chinese prodigal : a memoir in eight arguments / David Shih.
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Shih, David, 1970- author.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.
Subjects
Shih, David, 1970-
Chinese Americans -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Texas -- Dallas -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Race identity.
Fathers and sons -- Texas -- Dallas.
United States -- Race relations.
Eau Claire (Wis.) -- Biography.
Dallas (Tex.) -- Biography.
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9780802158994 (hardcover) :
0802158994 (hardcover) :
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x, 292 pages ; 22 cm
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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"After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his parents. Ultimately, this forced a reckoning with the expectations he encountered as the only son of Chinese immigrants, and with the realities of what it means to be Asian in a de facto segregated country. At a moment when anti-Asian racism is increasingly overt, Chinese Prodigal is a work of rare subtlety, offering a new vocabulary for understanding a racial hierarchy too often conceived as binary. In public life and in Shih's own, "Asian Americanness" has changed shape constantly, directed by the needs of the country's racial imaginary. A sliding scale, visibility for Asians in America has always been relative to the meanings of white and Black. A memoir in essays, Chinese Prodigal examines the emergence of "Asian American" identity in a post-Civil Rights America in the wake of Vincent Chin's death. Shih guides us through the roles offered to Asian Americans to play, whether a model minority, a collaborator in the carceral state, or a plaintiff in the right-wing effort to dismantle affirmative action, illuminating what these issues have to teach us about American values and about the vexed place Asians and Asian Americans inhabit today. And mining his own experiences--from his failures of filiality to his negotiations within an interracial marriage--Shih masterfully captures the intimate costs of becoming an American. Chinese Prodigal knits together the personal, the historical, and the present, offering an incisive examination of a society and the people it has never made space for. It is a moving testimony of a son, father, and citizen stepping outside the identities imposed on him."-- Provided by publisher.
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