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010 $a 2006032153
020 $a9781592136155 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a159213615X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM72871172
035 $a(OCoLC)72871172
035 $a(NNC)6155992
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050 00 $aF660.A1$bC38 2007
082 00 $a978.3/004951$222
100 1 $aChai, May-lee.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96103221
245 10 $aHapa girl :$ba memoir /$cMay-lee Chai.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$c2007.
300 $aviii, 211 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 $a"In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "mixed") their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s. In their new Midwestern home, the family finds itself the object of unwelcome attention, which swiftly escalates to violence - shotgun blasts were often directed at the family's house. The Chais are suddenly socially isolated and barely able to cope with the tension that arises from daily incidents of racial animosity, including random acts of cruelty, such as the killing of the family pets." "May-lee Chai's memoir ends in China, where she arrives just in time to witness a riot and demonstrations. Here she realizes that the rural Americans' "tears of change, of economic uncertainty, of racial anxiety, of the unknowable future compared to the known past were the same as China's. And I realized finally that it had not been my fault.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aChai, May-lee$xChildhood and youth.
600 10 $aChai, May-lee$xFamily.
650 0 $aRacially mixed people$zSouth Dakota$vBiography.
650 0 $aChinese Americans$zSouth Dakota$vBiography.
650 0 $aIrish Americans$zSouth Dakota$vBiography.
650 0 $aRacism$zSouth Dakota$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aViolence$zSouth Dakota$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aSouth Dakota$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aSouth Dakota$xRural conditions.
651 0 $aSouth Dakota$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117028
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032153.html
852 00 $bglx$hF660.A1$iC38 2007
852 00 $bbar$hF660.A1$iC38 2007