Title Big little man : in search of my Asian self / Alex Tizon.

Publication Info.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction	305.895 TIZ	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B TIZON ALEX T	Check Shelf

Description	261 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	"A ... journalist's memoir in the spirit of Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler: an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261)
Contents	Killing Magellan -- Land of the giants -- Orientals -- Seeking hot Asian babes -- Babes, continued -- Asian boy -- Tiny men on the big screen -- Its color was its size -- Getting tall -- Wen Wu -- Yellow tornado -- "What men are supposed to do" -- "One of us, not one of us" -- Big little fighter.
Subject	Tizon, Alex.
	Filipino Americans -- Biography.
	Young men -- United States -- Biography.
	Asian American men -- Social conditions.
	Asian American men -- Psychology.
	Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
	Sex role -- United States.
	Masculinity -- United States.
	Sexual attraction -- Social aspects -- United States.
	United States -- Ethnic relations.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
ISBN	9780547450483 (hbk.)
	0547450486 (hbk.)

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