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YELL-Oh Girls!
Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and
Growing Up Asian American
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YELL-Oh Girls!
Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and
Growing Up Asian American

Edited by Vickie Nam
2001, 297 pages, paperback.
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In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic conversation about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Prompted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds of submissions from all over the coun-try, these revelatory essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identi-ties, culture clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.

With a foreword by Phoebe Eng, as well as contributions from accomplished Asian American women mentors Janice Mirikitani, Helen Zia, Nora Okja Keller, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Elaine Kim, Patsy Mink, and Wendy Mink, YELL-Oh Girls! is an inspiring and much-needed resource for young Asian American girls.

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In this fine book, Asian American girls speak up and speak out They speak for themselves, to each other, and to the world. This honest, engaging anthology is important. It allows new voices to be heard and new stories to become part of our great American Story."
- Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

"Exuberant, poignant, hard-hitting, raw with anger and honesty -- these are voices that need to be heard. One heard, they will be remembered. Go, girls!"
- CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, author of The Mistress of Spices and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

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Background on Vickie Nam

Vickie Nam was most recently content/community producer at VOXXY, the L.A. - based interactive network for girls. She was formerly managing producer at AsianAvenue.com, news team coordinator at Teen People, and editor in chief of Blue Jean Magazine. Her work has appeared in Seventeen, Jump, and KoreAM Journal. Vickie lives in Los Angeles. Visit her Web site at
www.yellohgirls.com.

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