Children of Immigrants Seek to Define their Identity

NPR | By Claudio Sanchez

Published November 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

In the second of two stories, high school students who are children of immigrants in Fremont, Calif., talk about cultural identity and the pressures to succeed academically. Hear NPR's Claudio Sanchez.

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