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Book Club: About What Are You?

Class/Workshop
In Person
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
535 N. Fifth street San Jose, California, United States of America

Date: Nov. 5, 2016

Time: 1 p.m.


This meeting was scheduled for Oct 1, 2016 is now scheduled for Nov. 5, 2016

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another.

Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives.

What Are You? is based on the interviews the author has made over the past two years with mixed-race young people around the country. These fresh voices explore issues and topics such as dating, families, and the double

Cost:

Free with admission to the museum (nonmembers, $5; students and seniors over age 65, $3; JAMsj members and children under 12, free).


Questions:
Contact Aggie Idemoto at (408) 294-3138 or email her at aggie@jamsj.org

About the JAMsj Book Club:

The book club meets at 1:00 p.m. the first Saturday of every other month at JAMsj. Meetings are open to the general public, and books are available for purchase at the museum store.


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