Asian American Mormons -- Signature Books

Bridging Cultures
Asian American Mormons
Jessie L. Embry
Paperback. 162 Pages. / 0-8425-2399-5 / $14.95

As a general rule, Asian Americans enjoy the increased freedom they find in the United States but dislike what they see as a lack of discipline and tradition. They interact easily with other Americans but also report subtle barriers to establishing close relationships. This is true for Mormon converts, as well, especially those who have not learned English. Based on oral interviews, Embry has pieced together a fascinating and important study of this too-often neglected topic.

Jessie L. Embry is the director of the Oral History Program at the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an instructor of history at Brigham Young University. She is the author of Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons, "In His Own Language": Mormon Spanish Speaking Congregations in the United States, and Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle, and is co-author of After 150 Years: Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective and Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994.