Journalist and commentator Emil Guillermo spares few of the racial stereotypes and ethnic eccentricities of Asian Americans in this collection of columns from the pages of Asian Week. From the model minority myth to mail-order brides, from Hmong justice to political machinations, Guillermo demolishes many of the assumptions about America's fastest growing minority. Guillermo is sometimes satirically pungent, sometimes dead serious, but always an outspoken and engaging writer. He's a new voice in the on going debate on race and diversity in America.
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"In these unsettling and witty essays, Emil always goes for the jugular in his razor-sharp jabs at the isms, pettinesses, and follies that deny us our humanity." -- Ron Takaki, author A Different Mirror
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Asian Week Books is pleased to announce that Emil Guillermo's "Amok:Essays from an Asian American Perspective" has been named a winner of the 2000 American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. We're proud that Emil's provocative essays on Asian American issues have been recognized with this honor. The award brands him as one of the more original commentators on race and politics in America.
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This review is from: Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed (Paperback)
Emil Guillermo has put together a wonderful book about life in America from his perspective as the son of first generation Asian American immigrants of Filipino descent. In a collection of essays ranging from his undergraduate experience at Harvard University to baseball games with his Dad and commentary on the quirkiness of American culture, Guillermo reveals an engaging, humorous, and touching writing style. I enjoy reading and re-reading the essays in this book and recommend it to every American whose forbears came to this country 300 years ago or three years ago.
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