Surviving Twice
Subtitle: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: April 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781574888645
Subjects: Ethnic studies; United States; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Discrimination & Racism; History; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Military; USA; Vietnam; Military - Vietnam War; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies; Children of military personnel; Abandoned children; Amerasians
First sentence: I have spent eleven years in Americaten of them behind bars," the Vietnamese Amerasian Alan "Tiger" Hoa jokes during a collect phone call from a California prison.
Description: "Surviving Twice raises significant questions about how mixed-race children born of wars and occupations are treated and the ways in which the shifting laws, policies, social attitudes, and bureaucratic red tape of two nations affect them their entire lives."--Jacket.