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In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic converstions about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds of submission from all over the country, these revelatory essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.
With a foreword by Phoebe Eng, as well as contributions from accomplished Asian American women mentors Janice Mirikitani, Helen Zia, Nora Okja Keller, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Elaine Kim, Patsy Mink, and Wendy Mink, Yell-Oh Girls! is an inspiring and much-needed resource for young Asian American girls.
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great!!!.......2005-03-04
When i first started reading Yell-oh girls, it was kind of boreing and i didn't think i would like it. What drew me to it was the reveiw ont he back of the book. Eventually after i got through the first few pages, i found the book to be really interesting and informative. I thought the author did a great job putting this book together, with all the stories she added into it. I really enjoyed all of them. I never knew what these young girls had to go through. Being called a foreigner everywhere you go,and being stuck between two countries and not knowing which to choose. It must have been really hard!! overall, i thought this book was great!!! :)
Worth YELL-ing about!.......2004-11-03
"YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American," an anthology edited by Vickie Nam, contains more than 80 pieces (both poetry and prose) written by young Asian American women. There are also a few "mentor pieces" by established Asian American women. The book is organized thematically into 5 main sections: "Orientation: Finding the Way Home," in which writers "explore the Asian American landscape"; "Family Ties," which focuses on relationships with family members; "Dolly Rage," which deals with the intersections of physical appearance, difference, and discrimination; "Finding My Voice," about "wrestling with language, trying to somehow find the words to portray ourselves"; and finally "Girlwind: Emerging Voices for Change," which celebrates the activism of "the women warriors of tomorrow."
Each author is identified by her name (except for a small number of anonymous or pseudonymous pieces), age, and town they have lived or currently live in. Cities from many parts of the United States (California, Hawai'i, Illinois, Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas, etc.) are represented, and there is at least one writer from Canada. The young writers, who range in age from 14 to 22, have cultural/ancestral roots in many different nations: Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Laos.
Over 300 pages long, this anthology is full of fascinating selections. Most of them are very short. Some seem like seeds of what could become longer pieces. Some pieces seem to whet the appetite more successfully than satisfy it, but the best pieces are really noteworthy.
Some of the selections I found most impactful are as follows. "Her Three-Inch Feet," by Jenny Yu: a moving portrait of a great-aunt who had evidently undergone footbinding. "The Other Sister," by Kim McKee: about being adopted and having Caucasian family members. "Going Undercover," by Wendy M. Thompson: a reflection on having both Chinese and African American parentage. "Zine Grrrl," by Kristy Chan: a fascinating piece about alternative literary creativity. "Waving Fans," by Mia Chan Mi Park: about being the drummer for an all-Asian American female rock band. This last piece has my favorite line from the whole book: "YES, Asian American women also rock. . . and we rock hard, dammit!"
This book challenges stereotypes and offers bold new images of young Asian American women. And while rooted in the Asian American female experience, the book addresses many themes that are equally relevant to men and to women of other ethnic/cultural groups. Overall, this is a fine anthology, and a fitting companion to such groundbreaking anthologies as "Home Girls" and "This Bridge Called My Back." "YELL-Oh Girls!" is, in my opinion, a good choice for college courses, for reading groups, or for individual reading.
Expected more.......2004-07-15
I went into this book with the expectation of learning more about the asian american story- instead I got very generic stories. I think it would be better if the writters weren't all just teenagers and early twenties.
Hear Them Wail?.......2003-02-25
As a young Asian female living in the USA, the stuff those are talking here struck me so close to home. The only regretful thing I found in the work was that wailing tone in most of the writing and the quality of those writings which was not very satisfactory. That might be one of the reasons the book looks somewhat lacklustar. You can never attract audiences unless you achieve to express somewhat universal recognition on human condition even through one's tiny and too personal experience. Otherwise, writing works always end up being in a dead end of complain and negativities. This book seems to have alredy done a marvelous job to give the minorities who needs to let their voice heard the opportunuty to Talk. The next goal is to get broader audiences. The quality of the writing would be the inevitable key to success.
MUST READ!.......2003-01-16
I could not put this book down. It's very comforting to know that I am not alone out there.
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This book provides concise coverage of the major Asian American groups from both an historical and socio-cultural perspective. Coverage of each major group—Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Koreans, Pacific Islanders, and newer Asian American groups—especially those from Southeast Asia and South Asia—provides readers with a balanced overview of all cultures within US Asian society. Content reflects developments of the late 1990s and includes updated demographic information. For research in sociology, history, and ethnic studies professions.
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Too many statistics and not enough humanism.......2000-10-22
I appreciated this book in the sense that it provides some very useful statistics concerning the various ethnic groups within the Asian American population. Yet, I felt that this book lacked personality and soul. I wanted more than numbers. I wanted to see the big picture about the lives of Asian Americans. I wanted to see them as people.
On top of that, I think that the title perpetuates the stereotype that Asians are foreigners. An "emerging minority?" It implies that persons of Asian descent are just being noticed and just beginning to do things that are worthy of notice. Its true that not much is known in mainstream society about this community, but we have a long history in the U.S. Granted, most of the Asian American population are new immigrants, but our presence and legacy in the U.S. and in the Western hemisphere goes way back.
This book is a nice introduction to the Asian American experience, but I would use it as a supplement and not a primary sourse of information. Takaki (Strangers from a Different Shore), Chan (Asian Americans: An Interpretive History) and Espiritu (Asian American Women & Men: Labor, Laws & Love)do a much better job.
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Eye-opening book.......2005-06-17
This book details some organizing efforts of the 1990's. The essays inform readers of some of the injustices in our society, tell how these injustices were battled and analyze the success or failure of the efforts. A wide range of issues are covered-immigrant unions to school curriculums, police brutality to the internment of Haitians at Guantanamo Bay. This book is honest and does not disguise the difficulty of struggles for dignity, but is ultimately hopeful-positive change can occur.
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This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.
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A new social psychology!.......2002-08-13
What makes something legitimate or not legitimate? Naturally the answer depends on where you live. What is legitimate in one country is often not in another. This, as well as many other issues, makes legitimacy a very difficult thing to define and to grasp.
This book gives you an understaning of legitimacy and from a lot of angles. Leading researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, and organizational behavior, all contributed to this book and the themes they cover are overlapping and mutually informative.
One of the great things about this book is that the authors of the various sections are not philosophers, they are researchers. This means here that their opinions are backed up with corresponding studies, not just endless theorizing.
The book starts with a summary of what will follow, then a section on the historical perspectives on legitimacy. The historical section offers a brief overview of what the author considers to be the best books on the topic over hundreds of years. Lots of excellent condensed information.
The book continues with sections on "Congnitive and perceptual processes in the appraisal of legitimacy", "The tolerance of injustice: implications for self and society", "Stereotyping, ideology, and the legitimation of inequality", and "institional and organizational processes of legitimation."
There is really far too much to talk about, so I'll mention a couple of my favorite findings from the book. First, tokenism (allowing a small number of a discriminated against minority to move up in society) actually helps to keep the group that is discriminated against down. Why is this so? There are many issues, one is that the token identifies himself with the higher status group and no longer with the lower status group. That means he or she is more unlikely to care about the plite of his or her "former" discriminated against group. Another reason is that the existence of tokens actually makes legitimate the higher status of the upper group in the minds of both the favored and the discriminated against groups. One of the great things about this book is that this is not just theory, it is born out in scientific tests.
Another point I found outstanding was: what is legitimate to most people? The answer is usually something is legitimate if people feel that it is right. For example, if a process is believed to be fair (or right), people will believe it is legitimate. There are many interesting reasons for this which the book talks about.
"The Psychology of Legitimacy" contains fascinating insight, studies, and excellent theory all in one place. More importantly, it is about a topic so important and far reaching that it applies to literally everyone everywhere.
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The Emerging Black GOP Majority is a comprehensive examination of the Republican Party's past, present, and future efforts to break the Democratic Party's lock on the black vote. It presents an in-depth look at the GOP's successes and failures, and assesses the pitfalls and possibilities of its outreach efforts among black voters. The book presents a fresh look at a crucial area of American politics and race.
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The Title is Misleading.......2007-05-27
I did not purchase this from Amazon, but read it from somewhere else.
First, I think the title is misleading. It should be called The Challenge the GOP faces with courting Black America. If it was an emerging majority, wouldn't more African-Americans have voted for Bush in 2004?
I was expecting to see more how the Republican Party lost most of the black vote through speaking for state rights and pandering to racists starting in the 60's and Bill Clinton was a wake-up call for Republicans (seeing how he was loved by Black America).
Instead, the book shows how President Bush has tried to get more of the black vote. Maybe he knows how badly the relationship between the GOP and Black America has gone downhill. There was even a section of how Reagan tried to appeal to black conservatives too even though he wasn't well liked by the black community. It also goes into Clarence Thomas and shows how blacks can be both black and conservative (the same can also be said for Asians, Hispanics, Jews, etc...)
Another thing I think is there wasn't much blame to put on Democrats either. With Katrina, Hutchinson didn't put any blame on Blanco or Nagin about it. But it is true, most blacks didn't approve of Bush's handling. Nor did he not blame civil rights leaders for not preaching self-reliance and hard work. We all know what happened with Bill Cosby after his speech in 2004.
I also noticed this too. The comments Bill Bennett made about aborting black babies to decrease the crime rate was cut. Bennett said it would be a morally reprehensible thing to do after he said that. Hutchinson didn't put that in there.
Plus, if Hillary or Obama get nominated for the Democrats choice of President they won't get much of the black vote like they did for 40+ years.
The Republican Party has gone through dark times, but can they move past and show Black America they are not who they were 40 or even 20 years ago? Can the Republican Party go back to when they stood up for civil rights? Only time will tell.
Overall, an interesting book to read.
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Emerging Perspectives on Anti-Oppressive Practice
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This book consists of a selection of papers from those delivered as a recent conference on anti-oppressive practice in social work. Dr. Shera has gathered expert contributors to discuss, define and analyse theories of social work practice, pedagogical issues, fieldwork practice, models of education of social work practitioners and current critical issues. These selected conference papers lay the groundwork for anti-oppressive practice in a way that will generate discussion and inspire researchers and practitioners.
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Satisfied customer .......2007-03-08
As a student, I found that buying my text from Amazon on-line, saved me at least half price. I investigated other sellers and found that Amazon was the better seller.
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the "Model Minority"
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