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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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When Friends Come from Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

When Friends Come from Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

Blumberg-Kason, Susan

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Biographies GeneralPoverty & Social WorkRegional: Midwest

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ISBN10: 0252088182
ISBN13: 9780252088186
Publisher: 3 Fields Books
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later, she cofounded the Chinese American Service League (CASL) to help meet the needs of the city's isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wong's intimate account of her own life story through the CASL's larger history, Blumberg-Kason follows the group from its origins to its emergence as a robust social network that connects Chinatown residents to everything from daycare to immigration services to culinary education. Blumberg-Kason also traces CASL activism on issues like fair housing and violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At once intimate and broad in scope, When Friends Come from Afar uses one woman's life to illuminate a bedrock Chicago institution.

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