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Helen Zia speaks to law students at the William W. Knight Law School. Zia is the au
thor of “Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People.”
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Author shares perspective
■ Journalist Helen Zia hosts a reception and book
reading Tuesday, offering a unique look at the history
and emergence of Asian-American culture
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
From her personal memoirs to
the voices of South Asian taxicab
drivers, award-winning journalist
and former executive editor of Ms.
Magazine Helen Zia read from her
recently published book “Asian
American Dreams: The Emer
gence of an American People” at a
reception Tuesday evening.
Zia’s presentation was one of a
wide variety of events taking place
this week during the University’s
International Week.
The reading and reception was
presented by The Women’s Law
Forum, the Asian Pacific Ameri
can Law Students’ Association,
the Asian Pacific Students’ Asso
ciation, the Eugene 4J School Dis
trict Multicultural Equity Office,
the Eugene Association Minority
Affairs Committee, Asian Pacific
Americans Supporting the Arts,
Paper Traders in the Fifth Street
Public Market and the Chinese
Consolidation Benevolent Associ
ation.
Zia has been on tour the last two
weeks, visiting 12 cities nation
wide. She said she was prompted
to go on tour because mid-list
trade books such as hers, which
are not expected to be Stephen
King best sellers, need to have au
thors marketing their books so
they do not go out of print.
Zia said her book targets any
American reader interested in
We need to give an
honest depiction of who
we are.
Helen Zia
Author and journalist
American history and the dynam
ics of the various peoples in
America.
“So many American stories are
what I call M.I.H., or missing in
history, and my book is an attempt
to reclaim past as well as modern
day contemporary stories of
Asian-American people,” she
said.
Zia said she wrote the book in a
way that would let readers feel as
if they were walking into her liv
ing room and having a real con
versation about a vibrant commu
nity of Asian-Americans, which
she said is so poorly understood.
The title of her book describes
“the coming of age of Asian-Amer
icans.” Zia said her book is about
the American people and Ameri
can dreams, with the particular
twist that Asian-Americans have
these dreams.
Zia said the story is about the
rise of Asian-Americans as a polit
ically and socially influential
racial group. It is written in the
form of a journalistic chronicle of
key events and personal essays,
which recount her own journey to
pan-Asian awareness.
“All Americans share certain
ideals -- a dream of equality, a
dream of living to their potential,
a dream of freedom and hope for
their families and future genera
tions,” she said. “Asian-Ameri
cans and recent immigrants to
America also have this dream.”
The book examines the stereo
types toward Asian-Americans,
the Los Angeles riots and civil dis
turbances of 1992 and the murder
of Vincent Chan, a Chinese-Amer
ican, by two white autoworkers
who believed he was Japanese.
Zia said she wanted her book to
give a real portrayal of Asian
Americans and incorporate “the
good, bad and the ugly.”
“We need to give an honest de
piction of who we are,” she said.
“The more each of us can talk
about who we are in our particu
lar context, the more understand
ing there will be of the incredible
diversity there is among Asian
Americans.”
Zia, the daughter of Chinese im
migrants, was born in New Jersey
in the 1950s, when only 150,000
Chinese-Americans existed in
America. She was educated at
Princeton and Harvard. Zia is one
of the founders and a former presi
dent of the New York chapter of
the Asian American Journalists
Association. She has been an ac
tive member since 1986 and cur
rently lives in Oakland, Calif., in
the San Francisco Bay area.
Zia’s book can be purchased at
the University Bookstore.
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