Big little man : in search of my Asian self

Title Big little man : in search of my Asian self
Names Tizon, Alex.
Book Number DBC00336
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
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Annotation Takes a groundbreaking look at the experience and psyche of the Asian American male. In an America that saw Asian women as sexy and Asian men as sexless, the author traces his quest for love during college in the 1980s, a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. And then, a transformation with the author's understanding that shame is universal and seismic cultural changes where Asian males become cultural icons in America. An original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape still complex but much changed for the Asian American man. Adult. Descriptions of sex. 2014.
General Notes Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.
Local Notes "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"-- Provided by publisher
"Why do so many people find Asian women sexy but Asian men sexless? Alex Tizon's family emigrated from the Philippines when he was four. He quickly learned to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height. In movies and on television he saw Asian men as 'servants, villains, or geeks, one-dimensional, powerless, sneaky little men.' His observations of sex and the Asian American male -- as funny as they are fierce -- include the story of his own quest for love during college in the 1980s. It was a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. And then, a transformation. First, Tizon's growing understanding that shame is universal; that his own just happened to be about race. Next, seismic cultural changes--from Jerry Yang's phenomenal success with Yahoo! Inc., to actor Ken Watanabe's emergence in Hollywood blockbusters, to Jeremy Lin's meteoric NBA rise. Finally, Tizon's deeply original, taboo-bending investigation turns outward, tracking the unheard stories of young Asian men today, in a landscape many still find complex -- but that increasingly makes room for powerful, dynamic Asian American men"-- Provided by publisher
Narrator Ureta, Nathan
Length 7 hours, 57 minutes
Local Subject Adult book - AD
Nonfiction - NF
Social sciences - SO
Marriage and sex - SO8
Biography - BI
Male narrator - MN
Sexually explicit - SE
Civil rights and equality - SO10
Memoirs and autobiography - BI7
Produced at WTBBL - PAW
LC Subject Asian American men - Psychology
Asian American men - Social conditions
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity
Filipino Americans - Biography
Masculinity - United States
Sex role - United States
Sexual attraction - Social aspects - United States
Young men - United States - Biography
United States - Ethnic relations
Autobiographies
Biographies
Nonfiction
Audience Notes A NLS/BPH
Call Number 305.895073 ANF
Language English
Contents Killing Magellan -- Land of the Giants -- Orientals -- Seeking Hot Asian Babes -- Babes, Continued -- Asian Boy -- Tiny Men on the Big Screen -- Its Color Was Its Size -- Getting Tall -- Wen Wu -- Yellow Tornado -- "What Men Are Supposed to Do" -- "One of Us, Not One of Us" -- Big Little Fighter -- Author's Note.
Released 2014
Publication Info Seattle : Houghton Mifflin 2014
Original Publication Recorded from: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 9780547450483
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