Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
A great book overall because most of it is told in the actual voices of the very Asian Americans who helped create our history. Takaki's follow-up, A Different...
Lost and Found: An Interview with Karin Evans
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