Popular Press
What's Your Normal? Five Generations of Asian Americans
APALA News and Updates
(2016)
Abstract
Have you ever read a book called Jin Guo? Probably not. It’s a history of the earliest Chinese Canadian women. On page 100 is a photo of a first generation Chinese Canadian woman, Haw Chow See, holding her Canadian-born daughter Avis. Avis is my great-grandmother. The photo is dated 1897 and its one of the earliest records I have of my mother’s family in the Americas. Since that photo, three more generations of my family have lived in Canada and the United States. That makes me a fifth generation Chinese American...
Keywords
- code switching,
- whiteness,
- librarianship,
- Asian Americans,
- Chinese Canadians
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter February, 2016
Citation Information
Molly Higgins. "What's Your Normal? Five Generations of Asian Americans" APALA News and Updates (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/molly_higgins/15/