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Chinese Prodigal by David Shih is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chinese Prodigal about?

Froman exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright andprobing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified countryAfter 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...

Author

David Shih

Publisher

Grove Atlantic

Language

EN