Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices Book

	Introduction	1
1	Label us angry	15
2	1984	19
3	Death of a butterfly	26
4	A place where I want to be	34
5	Comings and goings	39
6	Seoul searching	52
7	Chinese again	58
8	Being oil	63
9	Double-A	70
10	ABC for life	76
11	How not to eat pho : me and Asia America	85
12	A little too Asian and not enough White	92
13	Half and half	100
14	China pearl	106
15	Roots and wings	112
16	Creating myself	118
17	Drawing the boundaries	122
18	Lost and found in Asian America	130
19	Brown in faded blue genes	133
20	Out and about : coming of age in a straight White world	139
21	Understanding life, ma, and me	149
22	Another American mutt	154
23	Shen Ai Shi Ren	160
24	Brown skin	167
25	The confession : part two	175
26	The Jazzian singer	182
27	Reminiscings	192
28	There's no place like home	201
29	Thin enough to be Asian	206
30	Language and identity	214
31	Who am I?	222
32	Doppelganger	227
33	Caught between cultures : identity, choice, and the hyphenated American	231
34	The paradox of being too Chinese and not Chinese enough	238
35	I am going home	244