Chang-rae Lee for CNN.com on "Korean-ness in America"

Watch Chang-rae Lee, author if Native Speaker and The Surrendered, on CNN.com discuss the difficulty for him of filling out the 2010 census, knowing that ticking the Korean box does not fully explain how his Korean-ness in America is like no one else’s before. If he were in charge of designing the census, the boxes would multiply, blur, become uncountable to allow for all the possibilities of one person’s identity.