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- From: ah881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joyce Brabner)
- Subject: Re: Publishing ethnic stories
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 03:00:37 GMT
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- I've been working on a non-fiction project, about the experiences
- of Cambodian-American teenagers growing up in America, as
- political refugees. I was invited to present the book to an
- educational press, interested in "multi-culturalism", but was
- just told the book may still be an orphan. A blue ribbon panel of
- Japanese/Chinese/Korean-American advisors supposedly said "those
- people"-- Southeast Asians-- aren't "interested in books about their
- own experiences. They're too busy assimilating." The teens I'm
- working with call this yellow Asian/brown Asian prejudice, and
- I also think there's a little age bias going on as well. There
- were some comments like "those kids don't read".
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- The editor who invited me in is still on my side, but it looks like
- this may be a tough sell. I probably would have better luck if I
- was pushing a historical saga, instead of a book about what it was
- like to trade the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot for neighborhoods in the
- middle of gang wars (East Boston and L.A.) But, I'm determined to
- get their stories out.
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