I'm looking for books for ethnic and cultural outsiders – those of us born to multiethnic and multicultural families but most ethnic and cultural influence was oppressed in favor of assimilation to the white American culture.
Currently reading: Speak Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
I'm interested in fiction and non-fiction literature on the topic and I do have access to a college database of research databases.
by Ok-Face-371
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As a transracial adoptee, I feel this ask so hard.
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Monstrous by Sarah Meyer
Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
You Should be Grateful ed. Angela Tucker
Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
These are documentaries but I found them enriching:
Daughter of a Lost Bird
Geographies of Kinship
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
Found
Closure (also features Angela Tucker)
Blood Memory
Generations Stolen
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
_Borderlands_ by Gloria Anzaldúa
The question doesn’t make much sense. “People who grew up outside of their culture”
You can’t grow up outside of your culture. Because your culture is the one you grew up in.
And if you grew up outside a culture, then that is not your culture.