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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of...
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Ronald T Takaki
In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker
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Eric Liu
A former spreechwriter for President Clinton explores his ambivalent feelings about his Chinese-American heritage. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Part Asian 100% Hapa
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Kip Fulbeck (Photographer), Sean Lennon (Foreword by), Paul R Spickard (Afterword by)
Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for "half," Hapa has since been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed racial heritage includes Asian or Pacific Island descent. Hapas number in the millions and permeate popular film, television, print, music, and sports - yet mainstream hapa awareness remains minimal at best. ...
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Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
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Natalia Molina
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, "Fit to Be Citizens?" demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health ...
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
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Frank H Wu
A leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American today.. In the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, law professor, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial ...
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Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
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Helen Zia
An award-winning Chinese-American journalist presents a groundbreaking discussion of defining moments that have transformed Asian Americans from a loosely knit, largely invisible ethnic group into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. Photos.
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Honey Flava
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Zane
"Honey Flava" features an erotic feast of short stories with enough Asian flava to ignite fireworks. With an African American and Asian mix of sexy characters, Zane picks the most clever and bold male and female writers to deliver a collection like no other. Stories like "Geisha Girl" and "Pins and Needles" give tea and acupuncture a whole new ...
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Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians
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Jane Hyun
You're educated and ambitious. Sure, the hours are long and corporate politics are a bane, but you focus on getting the job done, confident that you will be rewarded in the long run. Yet, somehow, your hard work isn't paying off, and you watch from the sidelines as your colleagues get promoted. Those who make it to management positions in this ...
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Children of the River
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Linda Crew
In this historically accurate novel, 13-year-old Sundara flees Cambodia with her family to escape the Khmer Rouge. One of many boat people, Sundara and her aunt and uncle get separated from the rest of their family.Together they escape to a small town in Oregon where Sundara struggles to fit into a new culture as well as remain true to her old one.
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Asian Am PB
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Sucheng Chan
This series presents concise histories of individual ethnic groups and their impact on American life and culture. With comprehensive examinations of the immigrant experience, it serves as a resource for both young students and experienced researchers. Each book in the series is written by a qualified scholar and includes notes, references, a ...
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Yellow: Stories
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Don Lee
The seven stories and novella collected here take place in California and revolve around Asian-American characters who identify themselves by the work they do. Poets, a carpenter, an engineer, a boat captain, and others populate the collection, which deals with the relationships forged by each.
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Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--And How You Can Too
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Soo Kim Abboud, Jane Kim
Asians and Asian-Americans make up 4 percent of the U.S. Population, and 20 percent of the Ivy League. The authors contend that Asian-Americans are no more intelligent than any other race or ethnic group, but that their parents have instilled in them a love of learning.
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Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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Shawn Wong
These brief anthologies of ethnic American literature are ideal for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. They are designed to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronologically by genre and represent ...
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
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Ronald T Takaki
An overview of Asian American history, written by an American with Japanese roots, this work of popular history gives voice to Asian Americans past and present. It reveals the aspirations and accomplishments of people who are often seen as foreigners in their own land. Asian Americans are America's latest ethnic success story. Having begun to ...
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
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Shyam Selvadurai (Editor)
Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, "The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of ...
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American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
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Laurence Yep, Ph.D.
A collection of stories and poems by Asian-American writers including Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and Lensey Namioka. Topics include the experiences of Japanese-Americans during World War II, relationships with parents and grandparents, and dilemmas of identity.
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Race, Rights and the Asian American Experience
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Angelo N Ancheta
In "Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience", Angelo N. Ancheta demonstrates how United States civil rights laws have been framed by a black-white model of race that typically ignores the experiences of other groups, including Asian Americans. When racial discourse is limited to antagonisms between black and white, Asian Americans often ...
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The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority
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Timonthy P Fong
For undergraduate courses in Sociology of Asian Americans, Introduction to Asian American Studies, or any course focusing on Asian Americans. Combining the rigor of scholarship with the accessibility of journalism, this text examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the fundamental issues confronted by Asians ...
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Hong Kong: A Jake Grafton Novel
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Stephen Coonts
Once again, Rear Admiral Jake Grafton finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of international intrigue. When he is sent to Hong Kong to investigate a plot to overthrow the Chinese government, his wife is kidnapped. Now Grafton must battle the ruthless Hong Kong mob, as well as fanatical political dissidents, in order to thwart the conspiracy ...
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Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays
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Misha Berson (Editor), Laurence Yep, Ph.D., Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
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Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities
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Harry H L Kitano
This volume provides coverage of all the Asian American groups from an historical and socio-cultural perspective. This edition focuses on intraracial and interracial marriages, and provides new coverage of the increasing aculturalism of Southeast Asian Refugees. It also: considers increased incidents of violence against tourists from Asia; ...
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Orientals
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Robert G Lee
In this study, author Robert G. Lee asserts that the word "oriental" is used by Caucasian Americans to perpetuate the notion that Asian Americans are foreigners, rather than true Americans. In tracing the origins of the label "oriental" and its negative connotations, Lee examines cultural stereotypes that have plagued Asian Americans since the ...
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Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today
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Mia Tuan
This work examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. The author analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a "real" American.
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Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (Editor), Elaine H Kim (Preface by)
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology "Charlie Chan Is Dead" remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, "Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World" brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating ...
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Common Ground: Reimagining American History
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Professor Gary Y Okihiro
In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history and people can be understood. He examines a set of binaries - East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual - that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of ...
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