The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the Bossman Franklin Odo's Columbia Documentary of the...
Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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Flower Power
Ask any Asian American familiar with musicals, and they’ll probably be able to sing “I Enjoy Being a Girl," recalling endless images of mirror-cloned Nancy Kwans. Like it or not, as...
The latest novel by this year’s Nobel Prize winner examines dislocation, tragic relationships, and the ultimately redemptive powers of love. Willie Chandran, born in India to a Brahmin who married down, immigrates...
Funny, dark short story-debut about vaguely interrelated characters with challenging lives.
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Academically heavy but intellectually enlightening look at perceptions of Asian American men.
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After her father is killed by terrorists, young Kenyan Indian woman arrives to unwelcoming relatives in Paris, and escapes to wend her way through various men.
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Diverse, entertaining collection by ethnic Chinese, born outside China, who travel back to a foreign “homeland.”
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Who needs Peter Mayle when we’ve got the original Chinese German Valley Girl?
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Touching, disturbing debut novel about Gabe, the “good” son, and his older brother Tomas, the Mexican gangster wannabe.
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Fabulous, dark love story of twisted sorts between a Chinese prostitute and a young white boy during the brutal days of late 1800s San Francisco.
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A memorable husband/wife collaboration rendered again with astonishing images by 
A definitive look at how we diverse people of Asian descent (Asians make up some 57% of the world population!) got lumped together as "Oriental" in the U.S. and eventually claimed our status as...
The premise of this disappointing novel revolves around Ramji, who, by the time he arrives in the U.S. in 1968 from his home in Dar es Salaam, East Africa (now Tanzania), he is already doubly displaced....
Thank goodness for reliable standbys: 
Let's face it, the media is great at creating and perpetuating stereotypes. Take Asians: inscrutable and mysterious, sly and calculating, from the shuffling house boy to the prostitute with the heart of gold, from Ming the...
Never mind its faults. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi is going to sell well. It's already a runaway bestseller in France, where it debuted in 1999 as...
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...