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    <body><![CDATA[Ah yes, how I remember this book. It was through a critique of this book that I explored for the first time the conflation of success/power with whiteness and identifications with whiteness that belie an underlying self-hatred. Nothing remarkable here, other than really bad prose.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a reader, I intentionally thought this book was about an Asian who was born &quot;accidental&quot; or simply, not meant to be born at all. Of course, that didn't give me a blind eye to dive right into Eric Liu's profound story of growing up and facing conflicts of being the label: Asian American....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61914464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was angsting over 2 stars or 3 stars, but, hey, it's Thanksgiving.  <br/><br/>Liu's book was certainly interesting, and really thought-provoking--ultimately it was an attempt to answer the questions What does it mean to be Chinese? and What is an Asian American?  His answer, to both, is pretty m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9224457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>So far I like it. Very well written, the narrator is sensitive and honest, and completely subjective. he's telling his authentic story, and in doing so is finally providing a Chinese American narrative that I can actually relate to. finally someone who acknowledges that being american born chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1911900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just *had* to read this book while working on a APA Heritage Month project celebrating Asian American unity, didn't I? <br/><br/>Eric Liu, a speechwriter for the Clinton administration, writer for Slate magazine, and professor at University of Washington, writes candidly about growing up as the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1379489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really wanted to give this book 4 or 5 stars, because there were entire passages where i felt that no one had ever understood me better than he did. i think he was much more thought-provoking and coherent when he was writing about his childhood and his relationship with his family. it was those pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29369836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of memoir driven essays concerning the gains and losses of ethnic assimilation.  He uncovers the price of becoming &quot;american&quot; and raises many interesting questions regarding ethnic blendings. A thought-provoking read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I agree with his central argument that the Asian-American identity construct is wholly illusory and doctrinally fragile, I'm not convinced that it will fade away within our generation.  No.  So long as America continues to be obsessed with the artificial concept of race, even if &quot;Asian-Am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24287359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was like reading many of my own thoughts on self-identity in America.  I can't recommend this enough.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard great things about this book before I read it, so when I saw it at this discount bookstore for 5 bucks, I had to have it. I can't say that I didn't like the book, because I enjoyed the majority of it. I felt like I could relate to him as a first generation Asian kid growing up in two dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14476381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[found it problematic at times.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother gave this to me as a gift and I'm am grateful he did. For the first couple of chapters it was as if the author were expressing thoughts I have often had but could not voice well. It was about looking for ones self-repressed Asian spirit inside the Westernized self after the death of a par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2339046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The rhetorical question remains: can one be Chinese American without simultaneously being &quot;not&quot; Chinese or &quot;not&quot; American?  Liu successfully uses simple language to convey the complexity of having an identity that is self-perceived as marginal and definatly marginal to the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1095405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think half star ratings would help me be a little more accurate in my ratings. This book falls between 3 and 4.<br/>Liu wrote this about 10 yrs ago and I felt that what he said about the overly broad, inadequate term  &quot;Asian American&quot; is still relevant today and to my experience. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8037844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting point of view on race/ethnicity for second generation Asians in America.  Don't fully agree with everything he says, but a lot of what he states rings true for myself.  It's an interesting narratice about what it means to be an American, while clinging to one's heritage and where loyalty...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2922857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely provocative and a book great for discussion in an Ethnic Studies or Asian Am course. It's still, for better or worse, a relevant text regarding what factors one should consider (or not) when it comes to identity. Tonally sometimes a little difficult to get past, but I still think it at le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7517729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i didn't like this book at first but every time i've read it i've gotten something from it. this book is good anyone interested in reflecting on the asian american identity. the author was formerly a speech writer for president clinton and writes about navigating the asian/american identify.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[provocative and also really problematic (nationalist, essentialist...), with pretty prose that belies the lack of any serious or complex analysis. but, also in some ways the story of my family...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really identify with this book, even though I didn't actually grow up here. I think that anyone that is second generation anything (Asian-American, Indian-American, etc) will appreciate the insights. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book hits pretty close to home from my perspective. A lot of the questions raised by Liu have resonated with me, as a displaced Thai-American raised in the South. Good read. ]]></body>
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