Big little man : in search of my Asian self
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
ISBN
9780547450483 (hardback), 9780547450483, 0547450486
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261 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.895 TIZON 2014
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780547450483 (hardback), 9780547450483, 0547450486

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"Why do so many people find Asian women sexy but Asian men sexless? Alex Tizon's family emigrated from the Philippines when he was four. He quickly learned to be ashamed of his face, his color, his physical size. In movies and on television he saw Asian men as 'servants, villains, or geeks, one-dimensional, powerless, sneaky little men.' His fierce and funny observations of sex and the Asian American male include the story of his own college life in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on just how little sex appeal accrued to the Asian man. And then, two transformations. First, Tizon's growing understanding that shame is universal; that his own just happened to take racial shape. Next, seismic cultural changes--from Xiu Xiang's 2004 Olympic gold-winning sprint, to Jerry Yang's phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to Keanu Reeves' leading-man status in The Matrix--that draw him out of his exile. Finally, Tizon's deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tizon, A. (2014). Big little man: in search of my Asian self . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tizon, Alex. 2014. Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Tizon, Alex. Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Tizon, Alex. Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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