Asian American Dreams

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People is a non-fiction book by Helen Zia, published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The book chronicles Zia's childhood in New Jersey and her interactions with American racial dynamics of the mid-20th century. Somini Gengupta of The New York Times stated that the book has a "polemical" tone and that it "is part memoir, part social history".[1] It also discusses the murder of Vincent Chin and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.[2]

  1. ^ Sengupta, Somini (2000-03-05). "Visible and Invisible". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
  2. ^ "Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2024-10-12.