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Biting the hand : growing up Asian in Black and White America

Summary: "A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper, forced Julia to question her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she? This question would follow Julia for years to come, resurfacing as she traded in her tumultuous childhood for the white upper echelon of elite academia. It was only when she began a PhD in English that she found answers--not in the Brontës or Austen, as Julia had planned, but rather in the brilliant prose of writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Their works gave Julia the vocabulary and, more important, the permission to critically examine her own tortured position as an Asian American, setting off a powerful journey of racial reckoning, atonement, and self-discovery that has shaped her adult life. With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching, Julia Lee lays bare the complex disorientation and shame that stems from this country's imposed racial hierarchy to argue that Asian Americans must leverage their liminality for lasting social change alongside Black and brown communities"--

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  • ISBN: 1250824672
  • ISBN: 9781250824677
  • Physical Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm.
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Subject: Lee, Julia Sun-Joo 1976-
Korean American women Race identity California Los Angeles
Korean American women California Los Angeles Biography
Korean Americans California Los Angeles Biography
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations History 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) Biography
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 979.494 LEE (Text) 50686016299047 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library B LEE (Text) 37268003163649 AHMFL Biography Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 979.4 LEE (Text) 33240005162667 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Biography Lee (Text) 39427103736971 Nonfiction Room: Adult Biography Available -
Martin Library Adults Lee Biography (Text) 33454005944194 2nd Floor Available -
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Somerset County Library 979.49 LEE (Text) 35907001818819 SOCM Non Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 979.494 (Text) 33062009727786 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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