Family Amnesia (inbunden, eng)

Family Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist''s Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family''s multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, her own captured images and archival material.

The book project honors the past and current lives of Asian Americans and immigrants in the U.Sby examining the incalculable and traumatic impact that historical events like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continue to have on the Asian American experience. This is a painful part of our American history. Betty Yu is reclaiming that narrative through her own personal family’s story.

The book will features her grandfather’s role as a founding member of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of NY, her mother’s plight as a garment worker who became a labor organizer, as well as her sister’s legacy as a community activist. Yu knows that her family''s story is not unique.

It is part of the larger collective Asian-American immigration experience.