Research Catalog

Title

Yell-oh girls! : emerging voices explore culture, identity, and growing up Asian American / Vickie Nam.

Publication

New York : Quill, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nam, Vickie

Description

xxxv, 297 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Culled from hundreds of submissions from all over the country, these poignant, honest, real, and surprising pieces on being Asian-American address such topics as culture clash, body image, interracial dating, adoption, and stereotypes.

Alternative Title

Yellow girls!

Subject

• Asian American teenage girls > Psychology
• Asian American teenage girls > Physiology
• Self-esteem in adolescence > United States
• Body image in adolescence > United States
• Youths' writings, American

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Poebe Eng -- Poetic salute: "Who is singing this song" / Janice Mirikitani -- Orientation -- Finding the way home: Two / June Kim -- The train / Meggy Wang -- Where are you from? / Jennifer Sa-rlang Kim -- Watching America with a Coke / Sarah Chang -- Distance, time, and wingspan / Gloria Ng -- Memories of Chinatown / Jean Chow -- Family trip / Debra Yoo -- Re-orienting the self / Elizabeth Kao -- Paradise ain't shit so why don't you jus' shut yoa' mout' / Elena Cabatu -- My country 'tis not of thee / Elizabeth C. Leung -- Flushing / Rona Luo -- Mentor piece: "Welcome to Washington" / Helen Zia -- Family ties -- Bristled affection / Carolyn Feng -- Knowing / Yusun Kwon -- Her three-inch feet / Jenny Yu -- Monopoly nights / Lei-Ann Lawi -- Burnt rice with fish sauce / Mai-Linh Hong -- Tainted / Belinda Wong -- Separation anxiety / Roselyn Domingo -- Ghost brother / Janet Jun -- Insomnia / Tina Shim -- Daughter / Kim Vigilia -- Cultural karma / Gena S. Hamamoto -- The answer / Julie Lu -- To our favorite baby doctor / Jennifer Chen -- Fried fish / Anjelica Cruz -- Collisions / Rebecca In-young Chung -- Funeral for Bryce / Anjali Blob -- The procession / Caroline Fan -- Chicken tinola / Rebecca Villanueva -- Furikake / Lei-Ann Lawi -- Kitchen god / Celena Cipriaso -- Sister skin / Janet Jun -- If / Wendy Cheung -- I love you, Dad (an unsent letter) / Grace Song -- Mentor piece: My Mother's food / Nora Okja Keller -- Dolly rage -- China doll / Alaina Wong -- Mirror, mirror / Julia Wong -- for body / Rebecca Villanueva -- The pimple / cia_b -- I wanned fo' try Biore / Elena Cabatu -- For those who love yellow girls / Meggy Wang -- Maybelline on Maple Street / Alison Park -- Best friends / Jennifer Li -- Finding my eye-dentity / Olivia Chung -- Nostrils / Sarah Chang -- The other sister / Kim McKee -- Breakup notice / author uknown -- Anorexic / Alice Chung -- rice cakes rice cakes and cereal: a memoir / Naomi Irie -- The lawsuit / Linh Ngo --
• Innocence / Debra Yoo -- Chalk marks / Nina Ji Youn Baek -- On the 16: episodes / Sandy'ci Moua -- Salt bread / Khamphian Vang -- "Ching, chang, chong!" / Michelle Ogues -- 94.6 / Alice Chung -- The barbarian / "Millie" -- Mentor piece: When Asian eyes are smiling / Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- Finding my voice -- Chinglish / Caroline Fan -- Kim Chee and yellow peril / Jenny S. Kim -- Marvin Gaye, The trials of being / Anjali Nath -- Funny girl / Diya Gullapalli -- Orientation day / Jennifer Wang -- Going undercover / Wendy M. Thompson -- Analyze this / Eroka Kim -- Learning to love my skin / Kamala Nair -- Zine grrrl / Kristy Chan -- Who we are: South Asian girls speak out: a roundtable discussion -- Identity crisis / Michelle Chang -- Mentor piece: Then and now, finding my voice / Elaine H. Kim -- Girlwind: emerging voices for change -- Ginseng from Starbucks / Mai-Linh Hong -- Just the tip of the iceberg: letter to the director / Alaina Wong -- One in front of the other / Tressa Anolin Navalta -- After the credits rolled / L.W. -- Learning by example: youth activism in the new millennium / Celeste Chu -- Global impact / Leanne Nakamura -- Screening Asian Americans: more Asian than American? / Jean Phan -- The revolution / April Bonnie Chang -- Untitled / Olivia Chung -- Waving fans / Mia Chan Mi Park -- My first film / Niru Jayaraman -- Coalition building among people of color / Rupal Patel -- A big bad prank: broadening the definition of Asian American feminist activism / Kristina Sheryl Wong -- Model minority guilt / Marites L. Mendoza -- Mentor piece: Excerpts from The conversation begins: Mothers and daughters talk about living feminism / Patsy Mink and Wendy Mink.

ISBN

0060959444

LCCN

^^2001018164

OCLC

• 45799383
• SCSB-12480039

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library