Big little man
Subtitle: in search of my Asian self
By: Alex Tizon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780547450483
Subjects: Filipino Americans; Asian Americans; Psychology; Ethnic identity; Ethnic relations; Social conditions; Sex role; Masculinity; Sexual attraction; Young men; Asian American men; Biography
Description: "A ... journalist's memoir in the spirit of Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of memory and Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler: an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261).
Table of contents: title: Killing Magellan; title: Land of the giants; title: Orientals; title: Seeking hot Asian babes; title: Babes, continued; title: Asian boy; title: Tiny men on the big screen; title: Its color was its size; title: Getting tall; title: Wen Wu; title: Yellow tornado; title: "What men are supposed to do"; title: "One of us, not one of us"; title: Big little fighter.