Legends From Camp by Lawson Fusao Inada [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Poetry, Repost
Poetry collection by an award-winning, third-generation Japanese American. As a child, Inada was interned during World War II with his parents at Jerome Camp in Arkansas and Amache Camp in Colorado. In...
Award-winning second poetry collection, which draws on Hongo’s diverse background, filled with images of Hawaiian volcanoes, war-torn battlefields, a high school classroom, Chinatown back alleys, and California beaches.
Review: 
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During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese...
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A diverse collection of essays, excerpts, and short stories about growing up in the U.S., all authored by Americans of Asian descent that address such global issues as parent-child relationships,...
A groundbreaking history of Asian Americans in the U.S. during the last 150 years, told predominantly through the actual narratives of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese,...
In this groundbreaking historical work, 
Most likely the first historical text to examine the experiences of Chinese American women over a 150-year history, utilizing personal interviews, photographs, and long-overlooked documents. Could also be suitable for...
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A collection of oral histories from first- to fourth-generation Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Americans of diverse backgrounds reflect on their American...
An illustrated history book which traces the presence of Chinese in America, from the first written proof (a Buddhist priest arrived in Canada and...
A collection of four plays by premiere Japanese American playwright 
Two plays by pioneer 
An anthology of diverse plays by six Asian American women playwrights: 
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A collection of six plays by groundbreaking Asian American playwright, David Henry Hwang, including his much-produced contemporary classic, FOB, the gender-bender Broadway hit, M. Butterfly, and the Philip Glass collaboration, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
Hwang was...