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Big little man : in search of my Asian self
- Title
- Big little man : in search of my Asian self / Alex Tizon.
- Author
- Tizon, Alex.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- 261 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Tizon, Alex
- Filipino Americans > Biography
- Asian American men > Psychology
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- United States > Ethnic relations
- Masculinity > United States
- Sexual attraction > Social aspects > United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
- Sex role > United States
- Asian American men > Social conditions
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
- Young men > United States > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Killing Magellan -- Land of the Giants -- Orientals -- Seeking Hot Asian Babes -- Babes, Continued -- Asian Boy -- Tiny Men on the Big Screen -- Its Color Was Its Size -- Getting Tall -- Wen Wu -- Yellow Tornado -- "What Men Are Supposed to Do" -- "One of Us, Not One of Us" -- Big Little Fighter -- Author's Note.
- Call Number
- IEA 14-6378
- ISBN
- 9780547450483
- 0547450486
- LCCN
- 2013045020
- OCLC
- 2013045020
- Author
- Tizon, Alex.
- Title
- Big little man : in search of my Asian self / Alex Tizon.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- IEA 14-6378