
Ava Chin, "Mott Street - A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming"
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The Life of My Great-Grandmothers
I think that the stories of the women are so important, but they, you know, oftentimes like in terms of written documents, we don't have them. So what I needed to turn to were the oral stories that my family members had told me. My grandfather on my chin-side pop was incredibly close to his mother and he talked about her in his oral history. He wrote, he left notes. The two sides of my family that I had never seen before, even in the same room, because the estrangement between my families was so vast.
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