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Article: The More Things Change: Paradigm Shifts in Asian American Studies.
- Article from:
- American Studies International
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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The implied remainder of the title of this paper is, of course, "the more they stay the same": "The more things change, the more they stay the same." In 1974 the writer Frank Chin and his fellow editors of Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers excoriated what they identified as the myth of Asian American "dual identity" by linking this concept and experience with the dominance of Anglo-assimilation in the United States.(1) Considered impossible to assimilate, Asians in America were described in various terms of inferiority having to do with being part-Asian and part-American. Now, a quarter of a century later, the protean concept of "dual identity" has ...