Balancing Two Worlds : Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories

Preface ix Introduction by Russell C. Leong Asian Americans: "Now Becoming Aware of Their Own Personality" 1 GENERATING NEW IDENTITIES Sticks and Salt Phuoc Nguyen 17 Distilling My Korean American Identity Patrick S. 37 Turning against Myself Amy Lee 47 CHALLENGING THE "MODEL MINORITY" LABEL Receding Past, Advancing Future Kenneth Lee 67 Balancing on the Hyphen Fuyuki Hirashima 90 Korea Is My Heart and Soul, America Is My Mind and Spirit Leah Lee 108 ORIGINS AND ETHNICITIES In Search of a Sangam Asha Gupta 125 A Muslim Citizen of the Democratic West Aly Rahim 137 American Pie Dean Krishna 150 My Permanent Home Sabeen Hassanali 169 WHAT ARE YOU? A Little Plot of No-Man's-Land Ki Mae Ponniah Heussner 187 Multihued Anthony R. Luckett 203 EMERGING DIVERSITIES No Such Thing ... Johnny Lee 221 Farewell My Tung-Tew Vincent Ng 242 Afterword by Vernon Takeshita Revolution and Revelations: The Personal Journey and the Definition of Community 259 About the Editors, the Introduction Author, and the Afterword Author 269