Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Groundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism.
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002
Readers: Young Adult, Adult
Published: 2001...
Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the 
Fascinating essay collection about being various shades of hapa.
Review: 
Here's the updated, revised second edition of the bestselling academic classic. Put it together with the two-parter Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000, and you'll have the...
Original Japanese Gen-Xer Banana Yoshimoto's Asleep offers a collection of three novellas, each about a young woman disconnected somehow to her present reality, finding relief and release only through sleep. We could all probably use a...
With some 30,000 Chinese children, mostly daughters, being raised throughout the West, books addressing transracial adoption are growing rapidly. Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China, by novelist Emily Prager,...
Here's the young adult version of Chen’s lyrical bestseller, Colors of the Mountain.
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Asian American young-adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In The Amah, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in Angelfish, Amy's friend Robin...
Young Asian American girls from all over the country share poems, essays, and stories that speak of their bicultural roots – feeling at home in no land, challenging family relationships made more difficult by...
Here's the book that brought more tears of joy, sadness, and the greatest of hope this month: With the ever-growing phenomenon of transracial adoption, Sacred Connections should be in every adoptive family's library. While...
Da Pidgin Guy: Lee Tonouchi reclaims his native language
They call him “Da Pidgin Guerrilla.” Bekuz o’ da way he talk. And da fak dat he determined to keep duh langwage of da Locals alive....
Another debut, Motherland tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Maya. Afraid that she has become too Americanized growing up in New York, Maya's parents ship her off for the summer to the remote, mountaintop home of...
Here's looking forward to the next generation of writers of South Asian descent: Bolo! Bolo! includes 84 diverse pieces, from poetry to essays to short stories. The title refers to a Hindi colloquial phrase...
This anthology, which includes both short stories and excerpts from larger works, celebrates the diversity of Asian American literature, from the many literary styles to the various ethnic backgrounds, ages...
A great book overall because most of it is told in the actual voices of the very Asian Americans who helped create our history. Takaki's follow-up, A Different...
Dogeaters Run
Jessica Hagedorn still sees her bestselling classic, 
Modern Girls
Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, 
In Overdrive: Frances Park’s Sweet Road to Success
What began as a short story has quickly become Frances Park’s breakout novel. When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon...
A beautiful collection of stories, poetry, remembrances, and art focusing on the tragedies caused by war, and the hopes for a lasting peace for today’s children. A book...