The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women edited by Velina Hasu Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi, Bitter Cane by Genny Lim, and Asa Ga Kimashita (Morning Has Broken) by Velina Hasu...
A collection of four plays by premiere Japanese American playwright 
In this parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, Sam Shikaze (of the Sam Spade school) is a Japanese American private detective hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen. In the process, he meets...
Hisaye Yamamoto began writing fiction at the age of 14 received her first acceptance from a literary magazine at 27. In between, "I got a whole slew of rejection slips," she recalled with a...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...
One day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...