AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace edited by Rachel C. Lee and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong [in AsianWeek]
30 May, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
A collection of 13 essays that examine the Asian Pacific American role in the latest frontier – cyberspace – from “Oriental” influences (with all the cringe-inducing-‘isms’ that word implies) to machine-like Asian laborers to the yellowfacing...
A debut collection of nine elliptical stories about lost souls in Los Angeles.
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A fabulous collection of 66 poems and stories by diverse APA women, from young girls struggling with identity to long-established voices searching for truth.
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A comprehensive overview of the history of Asian American politics, from the early historical cases of the first Asian immigrants against exclusion, to significant immigration law changes in 1924 (which virtually shut...
A look at what means to be “American” through the lens of theater and performance art.
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History in the Making
Fabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...
Memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious – not to mention incredibly charming – playwrights of our generation: Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf"...
The Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...
If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...
An ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...
First-ever, encyclopedic summary of APA playwrights’ lives and works. Exceptionally thorough resource.
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Collateral Damage
The Aug.13 issue of USA Today reports that more than 150 books that deal with Sept. 11 have already been or are about to be...
Love's Labor's Not Lost: Kaya Press
Sunyoung Lee and Juliana Koo make up the two-person office that is Kaya Press, a tiny, independent Asian/Asian Pacific American-focused, not-for-profit book publisher based in New York City. For...
A look at the long-term implications of the U.S.’s role in East Asia, the Americanization of Asia, and – even more importantly – the “extraordinary” Asianization of America.
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002...
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A top Hollywood makeup artist writes the first-ever beauty how-to that specifically addresses women of Asian descent. We must have already been too beautiful to need one sooner.
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Feng’s title is ingeniously layered: “Screening Asian Americans” refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened – how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how...
This time, Feng gets the whole book to himself. And if you read nothing else about film, read this introduction. His questions about identity – who defines it, how it’s defined, can...