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Apr 18, 2023 · Julia Lee’s memoir, “Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America,” examines this process, and in particular the forging of her identity as a Korean American woman in a ...
In Biting the Hand, Julia Lee uses her memoir as way to not only share her lived experience as an Asian American in the United States but also as a way to convey the anger, shame, and frustration that many people of color can feel in a country built on white supremacy.
Apr 19, 2023 · Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.
Apr 20, 2023 · In Biting the Hand, Julia Lee discusses this racial binary and her struggle of growing up Asian American within this culture. In three distinct parts titled “Rage,” “Shame,” and “Grace,” Lee guides readers through her struggle with racial identity, occupying white-centered spaces, finding her footing as a professor of African ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee. Publication Date: April 16, 2024; Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction; Paperback: 256 pages; Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; ISBN-10: 1250861578; ISBN-13: 9781250861573
Apr 18, 2023 · Biting the Hand is an exceptional account of an evolving understanding of power and privilege, offering readers insightful new ways to examine their world.” ―BookPage (starred review) “[Julia Lee] dispels the myth of the docile Asian and calls out the absurdities of racial hierarchies in this incisive memoir…Lee’s self-reflective ...
Biting the Hand is the fiery manifesto of an 'angry little Asian girl' that delivers on so many levels. Whip-smart and iconoclastic, Lee takes her readers along on her journey through America and academia, coast to coast,…
