One Asian Eye Growing Up Eurasian In America

"The great thing about being ostracized is there's no peer pressure." Jean is the ultimate outsider. With a white father and Asian mother, she is too dark to be considered "white" and too white to be considered anything else. She catches grief from whites and minorities alike as she tries to piece together clues from her ancestry among a predominantly white populace. Raised in a deteriorating blue-collar neighborhood during the economic slump of the 1970s, she becomes a latchkey child at the age of three. Her family moves to avoid the racial violence of busing, but she faces different challenges in the suburbs. As she grows into a teen during the 1980s, her parents seem to ignore the fact she is racially different from them. She is forced to grapple with this difference throughout college and into the 1990s as a young adult. This personal anthology is composed of a series of telling moments. Headed by popular songs, each carefully crafted short story and essay provides humor, drama and powerful insight into the changing face of America.Giovanetti, Jean is the author of 'One Asian Eye Growing Up Eurasian In America' with ISBN 9780595335879 and ISBN 059533587X.