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Asian Americans
‘I Was Trying to Figure out Who I Was’
Laureen Chew grew up the sheltered daughter of immigrant parents in San Francisco’s Chinatown. But when she enrolled at San Francisco State College in 1968, it was a stunning awakening. The campus was afire with new ideas and a growing movement for ethnic studies and educational equity.
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Asian Americans fight for equality and expand the definition of Asian American.
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An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands.
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