Abstract
look at the reading list of a typical American high school. Beyond a short excerpt from Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club or some exposure on the junior high school level to Laurence Yep's works (such as Dragonwings), one will be hard pressed to find the works of Asian American authors on the reading lists of most high schools. As English teachers, we need to expand our vision of what the canon should be, recognizing that the canon needs to make room for authors beyond that of the usual Caucasian and African American selections. As the developer and teacher of the first Asian American Literature class at my high school in San Francisco, I have come to realize that there are numerous works written by Asian American authors which deserve our
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