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\nBiting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
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\nA passionate\, no -holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defin ed by racial stratification. When Julia Lee was fifteen\, her hometown wen t up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean im migrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood\, Julia was tau ght to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However\, the acquit tal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King\, followin g the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper\, forced Julia to q uestion her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor whit e. So who was she? This question would follow Julia for years to come\, re surfacing as she traded in her tumultuous childhood for the white upper ec helon of elite academia. It was only when she began a PhD in English that she found answers--not in the Brontë\;s or Austen\, as Julia had plann ed\, but rather in the brilliant prose of writers like James Baldwin and T oni Morrison. Their works gave Julia the vocabulary and\, more important\, the permission to critically examine her own tortured position as an Asia n American\, setting off a powerful journey of racial reckoning\, atonemen t\, and self-discovery that has shaped her adult life. With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching\, Julia Lee lays bare the complex disorienta tion and shame that stems from this country's imposed racial hierarchy to argue that Asian Americans must leverage their liminality for lasting soci al change alongside Black and brown communities.
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