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Slideshow: 'American Born Chinese'

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Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang is the author of American Born Chinese, the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award. On the show this week, and in the slideshow above, he talks about growing up inside and out of the culture.

Pauline Bartolone

1:57 PM ET | 01-23-2008 | permalink

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What strikes me as I listen and view this article is the important role that art played in the acculturization of the author. Rather than marginalize or under-fund the arts in our schools, we need to make them more available to both English-language learners and the "American-born" to bring greater understanding of ourselves and each other.

Sent by Susan Bartolone, Ed.D | 8:45 AM ET | 01-28-2008

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