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Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people by Zia, Helen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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...The race name lately assigned to them — Asian-American — is a shifting, unstable thing, as race names tend to be. Sometimes Asian-Americans figure prominently, as in debates over affirmative action. Sometimes they are simply invisible, as in opinion polls that catalog Americans as black, white, Hispanic & other.That anxious adolescent conversation also contains the premise of ”Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People.” Helen Zia’s goal seems to be threefold: to argue that Asian-Americans, collectively the fastest growing group in the country, count as an American category; to illuminate some of the fissures among them; & to highlight recent episodes that have shaped the idea of the Asian in America.The book is part memoir, part social history. Because it is polemical in tone, the rich ordinariness of the many Asian-American lives Zia describes, not least her own, sometimes gets lost. And much of the information here will be familiar to scholars of Asian-American history. Still, this is an important book because it seeks to answer a question that few other popular works pose: What does it take for people like the author to become fully American? - HelenZia.comHE

Who reads Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people?

Author

Zia, Helen

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Macmillan

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374147747

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (543 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14