Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice edited by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutiérrez [in AsianWeek]
06 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
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...
The Philip Kan Gotanda Chronicles
He captured early-20th-century Hawai‘i with his bittersweet tale of thwarted love in Ballad of Yachiyo. He was the first playwright to ever dramatize life immediately after...
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...
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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...
A compilation of 21 interviews (two with the recently deceased Edward Said) with some of today’s leading lefties, including quite a number who do our community proud: 
This is one of those perfectly sized, well-designed books that add that something extra to an already enlightening reading experience. Perhaps the most powerful section of Uyehara’s slim volume is...
Based on the true story of Alice Sumida, a Japanese American woman who, with her husband Mark, established the country's largest gladiola flower bulb farm. Forced from their home post-9066 that sanctioned...
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...
Silent No More: The Varsity Victory Volunteers of World War II
Write what you know best” is the advice that writers probably hear most often. Franklin Odo, activist, academic, and museum curator extraordinaire, does exactly that. His latest title, No Sword...
A down-to-earth account of one of the most inspiring women of our times. The memoir that world-renowned activist Yuri Kochiyama began to write at the age of 77 for her family, is...
“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...
While the premise of a young girl’s diary about surviving war in contemporary Iraq is promising – if not necessary in order to put an innocent human face to the so-called ‘war on terrorism’...
A multifaceted look at the lasting effects of what has become an iconic event – the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor – which has been brought back to...
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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The paperback edition of an important title that explores the frontline news happening in a complicated, troubled, often misunderstood part of the world where war, terrorism and endless ethnic conflict have ravaged...
Part memoir, part activist handbook, part medical advice column, Hayashi who is the founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization, "breaks the silence” of her own history, debunks the myth of...
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...
How timely, indeed: Two erudite Korean American professors offer multiple viewpoints on North Korea and the potential for nuclear proliferation not-so-contained within.
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