san francisco bay area (calif.)

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san francisco bay area (calif.)

Stay true

a memoir
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation Taiwanese American who has a 'zine and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become best friends, a friendship built of late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the textbook successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet. Determined to hold on to all that was left of his best friend--his memories--Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging"--Provided by the publisher.

I remember Mama

1989
Relates the experiences of an immigrant family who despite their difficult circumstances, draw strength from the love and support of their matriarch, Mama. Following the feature film is a retrospective on three of the leading ladies of RKO Pictures: Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn and Irene Dunne.

Media bias, perspective, and state repression

the Black Panther Party
2010
Examines the information reported by the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967-1973).
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