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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See Publisher Comments Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship by Kristi Brian Synopsis Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian investigates the power dynamics at work between the white families... (read more) Your price: $82.50 New - Hardcover
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Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture by Thy Phu Synopsis At the heart of the model minority myth—often associated with Asian Americans—is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues... (read more) List Price $86.50 Your price: $79.75 New - Hardcover
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang Publisher Comments Hailed as "irrepressibly spirited and entertaining" (Pico Iyer, Time) and "a fascinating cultural survey" (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nikkei in the Interior West: Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882-1945 by Eric Walz Publisher Comments Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang Publisher Comments An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Asian America) by Celine Parrenas Shimizu Publisher Comments Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Asian America Through the Lens : History, Representations, and Identities (98 Edition) by Jun Xing Publisher Comments In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing surveys Asian American cinema, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E Kaplan Publisher Comments A fascinating and authoritative expose of Japanese organized crime, from its earliest beginnings to today's global expansion.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea by Jane Trenka Publisher Comments The powerful second memoir by the author of the widely acclaimed The Language of Blood made in Korea > cheap goods > cheap labor > cheap womb > cheap adoption > cheap immigration > cheap immigrant > cheap yellow daughter >... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation by Darrell Y Hamamoto Publisher Comments A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paper Daughter: A Memoir by M Elaine Mar Publisher Comments Chicken Bones and Mother's Milk My memory begins with the taste of chicken blood. Coaxed from the two-bone middle section of the wing, the crack of bone splintering between my teeth, the clotted marrow heavy on my tongue -- the memory of sweetness began... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Home Bound : Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries (03 Edition) by Yen Leespiritu Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-265) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Asian American Women by Lora Jo Foo Publisher Comments Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, sweatshop labor, exposure to hazardous chemicals and... (read more) Your price: $6.00 DRM-Free PDF - Electronic
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang Publisher Comments In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung illuminates her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward toward happiness. When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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