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Author Chai, May-lee

Title Hapa girl : a memoir / May-lee Chai
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 1 The Wearing of the Green; 2 The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York City; 3 How to Charm a Mother-in-Law; 4 California Dreamin'; 5 The Banana; 6 The Banana's Revenge; 7 Autumn in the Country; 8 Hunting Season; 9 The Little Things; 10 The Closet; 11 My Last Confession; 12 Bugs; 13 The Fall of the Prince; 14 The Jade Tree; 15 The Nights of Many Prayers; 16 What You Don't Know Can Hurt You; 17 Stephen King High; 18 Barbarians; 19 Glamour Puss; 20 The Cannibals; 21 The Fine Art of Denial
Summary A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Chai, May-lee -- Childhood and youth
Chai, May-lee -- Family
SUBJECT Chai, May-Lee -- Family
Chai, May-Lee -- Childhood and youth
Chai, May-lee fast
Subject Racially mixed people -- South Dakota -- Biography
Chinese Americans -- South Dakota -- Biography
Irish Americans -- South Dakota -- Biography
Racism -- South Dakota -- History -- 20th century
Violence -- South Dakota -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Childhood and youth of a person
Chinese Americans
Families
Irish Americans
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Racism
Rural conditions
Violence
SUBJECT South Dakota -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
South Dakota -- Rural conditions
South Dakota -- Biography
Subject South Dakota
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592136179
1592136176
1281093823
9781281093820
9786611093822
6611093826