Asian American Children: A Historical Handbook and Guide by Benson Tong [in AsianWeek]
27 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
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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Through close readings of “nativist” Taiwanese literature of the 1960s and 1970s and of the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, Yip offers a distinct national Taiwanese identity independent of historical Chinese...
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...
Nobel Prize-winner Naipaul continues Willie Chandran’s life story from 
Liu, a genetic scientist, arrives to visit her husband, Li, at his job site at the famed (or should that be infamous?) Three Gorges Dam Project...
From the author of Red Sorghum comes a monumental novel that follows 20th-century China through the lives of the eponymous woman and her nine children, none of them...
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...
Responding with Hope to 9/11: A Talk with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni About Her Latest Novel, Queen of Dreams
Three years after the tragic events of 9/11, 
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...
Incredibly enough, a British novelist has written my own family’s story – on both the Hong and Yi sides. Novel though it may be, here’s proof that my ancestors were beyond crazy. The first...
This enormous tome (800-plus pages) offers an expansive overview of a closed country and its incomprehensible leadership. With 13 years of research,...
A fascinating collection that examines the diversity and overlapping similarities of the contemporary Korean American experience, post-L.A.-riots and a century after the...
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...
This is a World War II story told from the other side – without that other side being demonized and made to seem inhuman. The book’s narrator meets an engineer who recalls...
In the latest installment in the Rei Shimura mystery series, Massey brings her hapa Japanese American heroine to Washington, DC, where she is designing a sleek fusion restaurant. Her political socialite cousin suddenly goes...
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: 
Horror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker
When I mention to a dear friend in England, who happens to be an excellent fiction writer herself, that I’m preparing...
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...