Younger Asian Americans navigate something new to their generation: Taking up space
LA TimesKarho Leung, 33, one of the founders of 12 Pell, a local barbershop, stands for his portrait on Pell Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown. “I am American, but I’m also South Asian,” she says. Born and raised in Las Vegas to a Filipino father and Mexican mother, the spoken word artist says that “it sounds like a different world” to hear about his parents’ experiences growing up. “She loves to read, and there’s so many stories now that are written by Asian American women that center Asian and Asian American girls as protagonists,” he says. I grew up here.” And “I grew up here” — is the operative engine as new generations of Asian Americans rise and claim their own space — even if the assumptions they make about what’s possible for them could be a bit unsettling for other generations.
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