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THROUGH THE FIRE: ‘Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker’: A Tribute to Sansei Coming of Age in the 1960s
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By MARY UYEMATSU KAO
Growing up in Sierra Madre in the 1950s and early ’60s created two Sansei girls starving for a Japanese American social life. My sister Amy and I experienced the common brush-off from the
hakujin we grew up with when it came to dating. Amy felt it more sharply than I, being older, and belonging to an active social group of ....

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