Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies & Pacific Islander Studi
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Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man followin
- Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
- Author: Bannai, Lorraine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 029574281X
- Language: English
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Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
$24.95 Add to cartA narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans
Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities o- Author: Ishizuka, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1781689989
- Language: English
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Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartA memoir written by Juanita Tamayo Lott, a participant in the 1968 San Francisco State College Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Strike to establish the College of Ethnic Studies. The book discusses
- Author: Lott, Juanita Tamayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0996351787
- Language: English
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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
$26.95 Add to cartAmerican diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country’s most popul
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Chen, Yong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0231168934
- Language: English
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Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans in Minnesota During World War II
$34.95 Add to cartThe experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil–a legacy relevant in today’s divis
- Author: Wong, Ka F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 168134310X
- Language: English
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Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
$29.95 Read moreAs children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would co… [more below]
- Author: Higuchi, Shirley Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0299327809
- Language: English
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Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss
$27.95 Add to cartIn dear elia Mimi Kh?c revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Kh?c traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenv… [more below]
- Author: Khúc, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025670
- Language: English
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
$20.00 Add to cart“An essential volume” –Hua Hsu, The New Yorker
The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled- Author: Abe, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0143133284
- Language: English
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
$40.00 Add to cartA rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Kh… [more below]
- Author: Gonzalves, Theodore S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 158834696X
- Language: English
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
$26.95 Add to cartThe Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make … [more below]
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351172
- Language: English
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My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred), for fans of Minor Feelings.There ar… [more below]
- Author: Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Ent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982195363
- Language: English
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Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love
$28.00 Add to cartA primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity.
“This is and will be a necessary and useful tool for generations to come.” —Jenny Wan
- Author: Camp, Ellie Yang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146617
- Language: English
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Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn Nimrods, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghost… [more below]
- Author: Guillermo, Kawika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024925
- Language: English
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
$20.00 Add to cartA quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking
In an epic story tha- Author: Chang, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004170
- Language: English
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An Asian American Theology of Liberation
$28.99 Read moreWhat does liberation mean for Asians at the core of an anti-Black, settler-colonial empire? This landmark book is the first to offer an Asian American theology of liberation for the present and future… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Tian An
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1643150553
- Language: English
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Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of econ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hsu, Madeline Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0190219769
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$15.00 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life
$14.99 Add to cart“The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in… [more below]
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317205
- Language: English
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The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the work the bride’s family has done in raising a daught
- Author: Moua, Mai Neng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1681340364
- Language: English
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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects
$0.00 Read moreA rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Kh
- Author: Gonzalves, Theodore S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1588347516
- Language: English
