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    Caroline Yee and Susan Yee
    01:28:55
    Caroline Yee and Susan Yee
    Sarah Geis
    February 20, 2009 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Susan, 35, interviews her mother Caroline, 64, about growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown, her work as a principal, and her family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Asian pride
    • Bock Quong Chin
    • Childhood Games
    • Chin Chum Chin
    • Chinatowns
    • Chinese Restaurants
    • Chinese school
    • Chinese-Americans
    • Christopher Yee
    • Class
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • community worthies
    SFD000347
    Susanna Houland and Maya Scott-Chung
    46:52
    Susanna Houland and Maya Scott-Chung
    No Facilitator
    April 25, 2011 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Maya Elena Scott-Chung (45) and Susie Hoblet (47), parents at Kaiser Elementary School, discuss the myth of the Ozzie and Harriet “traditional family” and Suzy’s experience growing up in Italy, France and traveling worldwide; the struggles of the sandwich generation,...

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    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • first impression of America
    • France
    • gay and lesbian

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