coping with betrayal

  • Kate DiCamillio’s The Tiger Rising

    Magnetic North’s “We Belong.” My favorite line: “We’re getting tired of proving we belong.” Kate DiCamillio tells an immigrant’s tale in The Tiger Rising. More specifically, it is the story of two immigrant children and the tiger from the title (who could also be considered an immigrant). All three are unwillingly transplanted into a new

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  • Vincent Chin, Danny Chen, and Coping with Betrayal

    Last weekend marked the 30th Anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin. The week that lead up to it was filled with posts from across the blogosphere about Vincent and the legacy of how little Judge Kaufman valued the life of a Chinese American versus the lives of the two white men murdered who him.

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