Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America edited by Pooja Makhijani [in AsianWeek]
06 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
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...
Nobel Prize-winner Naipaul continues Willie Chandran’s life story from 
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...
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...
This new edition of a bestselling classic biographical novel – should be on every student reading list! – includes a new essay, “Reclaiming Polly Bemis,” and discussion questions. <a href="http://www.mccunn.com/"...
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: 
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...
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...
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 ...