It irritated me to no end to have my Asian-American father tell me I would never be a “real American.”
Decades later, his words returned to haunt me.
Author: Linda Jue
Linda Jue is an National Association of Hispanic Journalists member and a contributing editor to palabra. She is editor at large for the investigative site 100Reporters as well as a reporting and writing coach for grantees of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is also a consultant for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.