California heads the list among all groups, New York State coming in second. At the back of the book are bibliographies embracing Asian affairs generally, Asian Americans and by ethnic group. Though not exhaustive, the list can provide a healthy knowledge of contemporary Asian Americans. Organized in historical order of immigration, at the front of each section are a series of questions which subsequently discussed and answered. When a liberal arts college alumni magazine with a healthy ethnic studies program concerns itself with the same issues twenty-five years after one's own exposure, the differential rate of exposure jogs one's consciousness.
Some queries are quite intriguing.
Reading through the answers in the section on Chinese Americans, I discovered a time warp. I wish it were indeed so. Factually is that Ms. Koesun's dancing period with ABT was in the late 40's and early 50's. Ichino also was the first American woman to win a Bronze Medal in a Ballet Competition in Moscow. Among Filipinos in ballet companies, the most familiar are Andre Reyes, Maniya Barredo and Nicholas Pacana, the latter two recently retired from Atlanta Ballet, the former from San Francisco Ballet.