Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

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Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

An award-winning writer takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male.
ã€€ã€€ Alex Tizon landed in an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless. Immigrating from the Philippines as a young boy, everything he saw and heard taught him to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height.
ã€€His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include his own quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. Tizon writes: "I had to educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do it for me."
ã€€And then, a transformation. First, Tizonâ€™s growing understanding that shame is universal: that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes â€“ from Jerry Yangâ€™s phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabeâ€™s emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Linâ€™s meteoric NBA rise.ã€€Finally, Tizonâ€™s deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man.ã€€

Country	USA
Author	Alex Tizon
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780544232853
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
NumberOfPages	277
PublicationDate	2014-06-10
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ReleaseDate	2014-06-10
Studio	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self

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