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Title: YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam ISBN: 0-06-095944-4 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Perfect Book for Asian American Females
Comment: Ever since I started rediscovering my Asian American culture in 1997, I searched for everywhere for a book where I could relate my feelings. There are many good books out there written by Asian American authors, but none has compared to this anthology. This is the first book that I have read where I could relate to all the writers' thoughts. "Yell-Oh Girls" is made up of wonderful stories, poems, essays, and quotes by young Asian American girls and female Asian American role models. The book is divided up into 5 categories: Orientation:Finding the Way Home, Family Ties, Dolly Rage, Finding My Voice, and Girlwind:Emerging Voices For Change. The category I found that I could relate to most was "Orientation: Finding the Way Home". In this category, the stories are mainly about dealing with being Asian and American. Many of these girls feel like they are stuck in the middle of nowhere and this is a feeling that many can relate to. Throughout this book there are many topics that make you think. It is such a surprise to discover that racism and ignorance is still occuring in the United States today. From the subject of Mr. Wong to the stereotypical view of Asian females in today's media are also discussed in this book. This is one book that should not be ignored because the Asian American population is growing everyday and the issues in the book are very important. I would highly recommmend this book to everyone I know. Not only is is a great book for Asian American females, but I think people of different races would enjoy. I think many females of different colors can relate to some of what is said in this book. I think it's great that Asian American girls have finally had their chance to speak out for themselves.
Rating: 3
Summary: Limited audience, lack of depth mar interesting collection
Comment: This is a sweet collection of short anecdotal stories and poetry by mostly high school or college-aged Asian American females. The book is organized thematically, with subtitles like 'Family ties,' under which we find a variety of short stories written by girls/women of a variety of Asian ethnicities (though pieces authored by Korean Americans seem disproportionately large in number) who claim a variety of U.S. regional affiliations. The idea behind the book seems to be to prove or justify the internal diversity of a demographic popularly called 'Asian American females' - their races, personalities, interests, thoughts - and works as a response to the monolithic view of Asian American women offered by mass media. Whether or not it was intended, the book is unfortunately geared towards a very small audience; not only is it made to appeal to an Asian American female-specific readership that assumes a sort of unofficial sisterhood among females of Asian ancestry, its stories also tend to feature themes that are too high on light anecdotes and too low on fodder for intelligent thought and discussion. That is, most stories seem juvenile: limited to proving the authors' superficial individuality with a review of their outward lives and the problems they face as individuals solidly affiliated with two (or more) cultures but unable to pledge allegiance to any one. The stories in this book - while they number quite a few - are unable to provide detail to the identity crises mentioned or described in passing - details which will provide a deeper, richer, more complete, and more intelligent view of these spirited young countributors by answering basic questions such as 'Who am I?' 'Why am I?' and 'Why do I think so?' We in America have been content for far too long with vague statements about 'appreciating my culture' or 'knowing my culture/who I am' from Americans whose ancestors do not hail from Western Europe. It is time now for young Asian Americans (and other census-defined demographics) to more intelligently claim their individuality by closely examining exactly who they are and why. It is not enough to say that one 'understands what it means to be [Asian]' because has taken a short vacation to Asian nation X after graduating from high school. One must more thoroughly examine oneself before endeavoring to claim that ability to understand so complex a subject - a thorough examination not found in Yell-Oh Girls.
Rating: 1
Summary: No No No
Comment: This book is bad for your health...the red cross is watching....BEWARE!!!!!
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Title: Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu ISBN: 046500640X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia ISBN: 0374527369 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and by Joann Faung Jean Lee ISBN: 1565840232 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Leaving Deep Water: Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures by Claire S. Chow ISBN: 0452280494 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire by Sonia Shah ISBN: 0896085759 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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