Behind the Music: "Forbidden Songs" in Warsaw
One of Poland's most beloved films is a unique example of music uniting both Jews and gentiles in the immediate post-war period that would soon become very difficult to find anywhere else.
Priscilla Hefley
By Eric Lindberg
USC School of Social Work
As an adoptee from Taiwan growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Priscilla Hefley struggled to find her identity.
To avoid being seen as an outsider, she embraced the mainstream culture. It wasn’t until college that she began to reconnect with her roots and what it meant to be a Chinese American.
“Adoptees can have a sense of not really being American and not really being Chinese,” she said. “It was a real struggle. Where exactly do I fit?”