Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2

Updated May 1, 2024
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The making of Asian America : a history
Lee, Erika
Paper Book
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee...
Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans
Takaki, Ronald T.
Paper Book
A powerful and moving history of Asian Americans that spans centuries, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.  In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a...
Asian American art : a history, 1850-1970
Paper Book
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and...
The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
Paper Book
Master storyteller Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters in this New York Times bestseller. "The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it...
American born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Paper Book
Original Series Now Available on Disney+ A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to...
Everything I never told you
Ng, Celeste.
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly,...
The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Paper Book
A first-generation Chinese-American woman recounts growing up in America within a tradition-bound Chinese family, confronted with Chinese ghosts from the past and non-Chinese ghosts of the present.
Yellow : race in America beyond Black and white
Wu, Frank H.
Paper Book
Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century....
Native speaker
Lee, Chang-rae.
Paper Book
ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee...
The loneliest Americans
Kang, Jay Caspian
Paper Book
A "provocative and sweeping" (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores-and reimagines-Asian American identity in a Black and white world " Kang's exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come."-Jennifer Szalai...
The Columbia guide to Asian American history
Okihiro, Gary Y.
Paper Book
Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences and...

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