Asian American Memoir

Celebrate AAPI heritage and learn about the Asian American experience through first-person memoir, narratives, and personal histories, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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Asian American Memoir

Celebrate AAPI heritage and learn about the Asian American experience through first-person memoir, narratives, and personal histories, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
Hong, Cathy Park
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE * A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant...
America is in the heart; a personal history
Bulosan, Carlos.
Paper Book
First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
Talk Thai the adventures of Buddhist boy
Sukrungruang, Ira.
Ebook
On one side of the door, the rich smell of sweet, spicy food and the calm of Buddhist devotion; on the other, the strangeness of a new land. When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the U.S., they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of "American"...
Fault lines : a memoir
Alexander, Meena
Paper Book
From India to Sudan to England, and finally to the island of Manhattan, this book traces the author's growth as a writer and a woman over borders, through decades, and across cultures. It presents the memories of a childhood in postcolonial India and Africa surface amid her present life in...
Freedom without Justice : The Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee
Lee, Chol Soo
Ebook
Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee's wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the...
Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Paper Book
"During World War ll a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Amarican internees. One of the first familles to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their...
The woman warrior ; China men
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Paper Book
Here--for the first time in one volume--are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books the acclaimed author mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.<...
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