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Filipino Writer's Memoir Takes On Asian Male Stereotypes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon emigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines as a child in the 1960s. In his memoir, “Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self,” Tizon reflects on the immigrant experience of shedding his language and culture in acts of “relentless self-annihilation.” As a Filipino …read more

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