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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 SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

My Brother MartinThe 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...

Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience by Franklin Odo + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

17 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

columbia-documentary-of-the-asian-american-experienceHistory in the Making Franklin Odo is not one to rest on his laurels. As a man of many firsts – first from his Hawai‘i high school to get into Princeton, first Asian Pacific American to...

Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War edited by Anthony Arnove [in AsianWeek]

20 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Iraqi, Nonfiction, Repost

Iraq Under Siege“When people asked me if I would edit an updated edition of Iraq Under Siege, my answer has always been ‘no’ – that I hoped the book would soon become historically obsolete...

this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation edited by Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating [in AsianWeek]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost

This Bridge We Call HomeA collection of 80-plus essays on race, culture, feminism, and activism, which continues the dialogue begun two decades ago in the revolutionary this bridge called my back. Included...

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Foo [in AsianWeek]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

AA WomenFabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...

21st Century Manzanar: A Novel by Perry Miyake [in AsianWeek]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

21st Century ManzanarThe U.S. government’s need for scapegoats takes a chilling twist in Miyake’s effective debut novel, in which Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and the concentration camps are reopened. This time, the country’s...

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe [in AsianWeek]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian

Land of Green GhostsA touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...

Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Internment Camp by Michael L. Cooper [in AsianWeek]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Remembering Manzanar“It is easy to understand why Japanese Americans want to know what happened in this war relocation camp,” Cooper writes. “But why is it important for other Americans to remember Manzanar?” Cooper necessarily questions....

Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences edited by Linda Trinh Võ and Rick Bonus [in AsianWeek]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Southeast Asian American

Contemporary AA CommunitiesThe Asian Pacific American community, post-1965 immigration laws, post-1960s Civil Rights and APA movements, is facing great changes. A questioning, provoking look at communities in transition, communities in transformation, and communities of...

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

when-my-name-was-keokoWhen My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...

Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History edited by Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa [in AsianWeek]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Re.collecting Early Asian AmericaIf you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...

Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America by Angela Glover Blackwell, Steward Kwoh, and Manuel Pastor [in AsianWeek]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Searching for Common GroundAn ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...

Asian Americans On War & Peace edited by Russell C. Leong and Don T. Nakanishi [in AsianWeek]

05 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Asian Americans on War and PeaceCollateral Damage The Aug.13 issue of USA Today reports that more than 150 books that deal with Sept. 11 have already been or are about to be...

The Asian American Century by Warren I. Cohen [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

AA CenturyA 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...

Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia by Karl Taro Greenfeld [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Standard DeviationsAt 23, Greenfeld “set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by the lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic.” Part memoir, part social history, all wild ride, Deviations catches glimpses...

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park + Author interview [in AsianWeek]

11 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

when-my-name-was-keokoLinda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...

Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans edited by Erica Harth [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Last WitnessesPowerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children. Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002 Readers: Adult Published:...

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Yellow.WuSociety in true color by aMagazine's very own politics columnist. About time, no? Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002 Readers: Adult Published: 2001...

Screening Asian Americans edited and with an introduction by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Screening Asian AmericansFeng’s title is ingeniously layered: “Screening Asian Americans” refers to at least three ways in which Asian Americans are screened – how they are evaluated, how their images are projected, and how...

Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. Feng [in AsianWeek]

01 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Identities in MotionThis 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...

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