The Three Virtues of Effective Parenting: Lessons from Confucius on the Power of Benevolence, Wisdom, and Courage by Shirley Yuen [in AsianWeek]
27 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
With all the endless shelves of parenting titles, why not tout one that champions Asian influences? One major diversion, however, from traditional discipline tactics attributed to Confucius: While...
A lively sourcebook filled with compelling essays that look at the Asian Pacific American experience through the experiences of APA youth – a group marked more by diversity than easy-to-define labels.
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Oh, Asian influences are everywhere we look … and becoming endlessly more visible – or, in this case, more visual. The influences of Buddhist teachings and perspectives are...
For women of color, the fight for civil rights includes equitable reproductive rights. Both coercive sterilization and invasive long-term birth-control technologies have historically undermined the reproductive rights of women of color. Such practices continue...
A collection to share with your daughter – your sister, your cousin, even your mother. Thoughtful and eye-opening, this collection by women from many backgrounds recalls childhood experiences on when and how...
While the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has definitely made progress in gaining political visibility, so much more needs to be done. So next week, especially, make sure to go out...
The latest in the exploration of Asian American identity by young voices. “How do we – that is, Asian Americans of our generation – understand our individual and collective identities?” ask...
An examination of the formation of the Asian American community in San Diego – California’s second largest city and the sixth largest nationally – which numbers more than...
More than three decades after ‘Orientals' claimed their identities as Asian Americans in the late 1960s, the said moniker no longer encompasses this growing group of Americans whose one commonality...
“We are a nation of immigrants,” Hing states in his introduction. And certainly that is a factual statement. However, since the United States was established more than two...
Told from a young Asian adoptee girl’s point of view, this straightforward story is a reassuring look at how families can be formed by adoption, and that all families are...
The much awaited follow-up to the first Charlie Chan Is Dead (now already more than a decade old!), which includes the works of 42 Asian American writers ...
An anthology of ‘autobiographies as activisms’ by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and self-identified ‘queer’ Asian Pacific Americans, Restoried Selves also provides young gay APAs a tool for empowerment and finding community.
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Filled with whimsical paintings by various Chinese peasants who work in Jinshan County near Shanghai, China, Moon is a thoughtful, poignant series of questions-without-answers that encourage adopted children to begin...
There are no silent, subservient types in this newest anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, and art that skewers stereotypes of Asian Pacific Americans. Also includes a section devoted to cringe-inducing media quotes (remember <a...
A unique dialogue centered around 24 works by visual artists of varied Asian heritages, between the artists themselves and writers, cultural critics, social activists, curators, scholars, and other artists. The...
Gathering History for the Future: A Profile of Curator & Historian Franklin Odo
Make sure you get this one into your library – it's the very first collection of historical writings by and about APA women. It's about rethinking our collective past as...
Drawing upon the experiences of over 60 multiracial families – including her own, made up of a Japanese American husband and two hapa children – Nakazawa...
A focus on Asian American women in politics and dedicated to the late Patsy Mink, who was the first APA woman elected to Congress, famous for helping to author Title IX of...