| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Orientation-Finding the way home: Two -- Train -- Where are you from? -- Watching America with a coke -- Distance, time, and wingspan -- Memories of Chinatown -- Family trip -- Re-orienting the self -- Paradise ain't shit so why don't you jus' shut yoa' mout' -- My country 'tis of thee -- Flushing -- Mentor piece-"Welcome to Washington" -- Family ties: Bristled affection -- Knowing -- Her three-inch feet -- Monopoly nights -- Burnt rice with fish sauce -- Tainted -- Separation anxiety -- Ghost brother -- Insomnia -- Daughter -- Cultural karma -- Answer -- To our favorite baby doctor -- Fried fish -- Collisions -- Funeral for Bryce -- Procession -- Chicken tinola -- Furikake -- Kitchen god -- Sister skin -- If -- I love you, Dad -- Mentor piece-My Mother's food -- Dolly rage: China doll -- Mirror, mirror -- for body -- Pimple -- I wanned fo' try biore -- For those who love yellow girls -- Maybelline on Maple Street -- Best friends -- Finding my eye-dentity -- Nostrils -- Other sister -- Breakup notice -- Anorexic -- rice cakes rice cakes and cereal, a memoir -- Lawsuit. |
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Innocence: Chalk marks -- On the 16:episodes -- Salt bread -- "Ching, Chang, Chong!" -- 94.6 -- Barbarian -- Mentor piece-When Asian eyes are smiling -- Finding my voice: Chinglish -- Kim Chee and yellow peril -- Marvin Gaye, The trials of being -- Funny girl -- Orientation day -- Going undercover -- Analyze this -- Learning to love my skin -- Zine grrrl -- Who we are-South Asian girls speak out -- Identity crisis -- Mentor piece-Then and now, finding my voice -- Girlwind: emerging voices for change: Ginseng from Starbucks -- Just the tip of the iceberg, letter to the director -- One in front of the other -- After the credits rolled -- Learning by example-youth activism in the new millennium -- Global impact -- Screening Asian Americans- more Asian than American? -- Revolution -- Untitled -- Waving fans -- My first film -- coalition building among people of color -- Big bad prank-broadening the definition of Asian American feminist activism -- Model minority guilt -- Mentor piece-Excerpts from the conversation begins: Mothers and daughters talk about living feminism. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.6 16.0 66876. |
| Subject |
Asian American teenage girls -- Psychology.
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Asian American teenage girls -- Physiology.
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Self-esteem in adolescence -- United States.
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Body image in adolescence -- United States.
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Youths' writings, American.
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| Added Author |
Nam, Vickie.
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| ISBN |
0060959444 paperback |
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