AAS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glass Ceiling, Angry Little Asian Girl, Five Angry Episodes, Lela Lee

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Asian & Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 250
• Professor: Kamal Sridhar

Document Summary

First asian-american governor gary f. locke in washington state: 21st governor of washington state. Helped break the glass ceiling: whenever a minority or women does something that is not expected, they chip away from the glass ceiling. Father: went to read palm and at first he didn"t believe but still went: said he was going have a son who is famous big politician. Grandfather came worked as a houseboy in olympia in exchange for english lessons: joke that they took 100 years to move 1 mile, since he works a mile from the house that his grandfather worked at. He remembers when he went to school, his teacher would ask him what he ate for breakfast and if it wasn"t an american breakfast, they would get their hands smacked. He is a product of affirmative action yale during the vietnam war time.