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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