My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Christine King Farris, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet [in AsianWeek]
31 Jan, by in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
The legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. remembered as a young boy by his older sister, with images spectacularly captured by the award-winning Korean American illustrator Chris Soentpiet.
Review: "New and Notable...
History in the Making
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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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Powerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children.
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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...