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Motibas Tattoos a Granddaughters Journey
by Mira Kamdar  Publisher Comments "From the Bible to the Odyssey to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the journey or quest has been a staple motif of Western literature. Motiba's Tattoos is a welcome addition to that list." (The Washington Post) Mira Kamdar was born in the United States...
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen Publisher Comments As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion...
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Ten Thousand Sorrows
by Elizabeth Kim Publisher Comments The autobiography of a Korean-American woman who has overcome traumatic childhood experiences, including witnessing her mother's murder and suffering prejudice in the US when she was adopted by fundamentalist Christians. "Elizabeth Kim writes with...
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Desert Exile
by Yoshiko Uchida Publisher Comments Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942....
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The Language of Blood: A Memoir
by Jane Jeong Trenka Publisher Comments An adoptee's search for identity takes her on a journey from Minnesota to Korea and back as she seeks to resolve the dualities that have long defined her life: Korean-born, American-raised, never fully belonging to either. For years, Korean adoptee Jane...
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Issei Nisei War Bride Three
by Evelyn Nakano Glenn Publisher Comments Although unique in many ways, the situation of the Japanese American woman has important parallels with that of other women of colour in the United States. Ironically her role as a domestic cast her in a menial, degraded job but often elevated her to the...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs
by Ivan Light Publisher Comments A decade in preparation, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs" offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s...
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Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas
by Wanni W Anderson Publisher Comments Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and...
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Turning Japanese Memoirs of a Sansei
by David Mura Publisher Comments A journal of discovery by a poet and third-generation Japanese-American who explores the sense of difference that haunts him both at home and in Japan....
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The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920
by Masayo Duus Publisher Comments A dramatic tale of how a little-remembered strike in Hawaii fanned the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and, the author argues, ultimately led to the infamous Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924....
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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power
by Phoebe Eng Publisher Comments Call it either a curse or a blessing. I was born in the Chinese year of the Tiger -- a year, it is said, that yields girls who grow up to be trouble. Welcome to the world of the modern Asian American woman, where the willingness to cause "trouble" -- to...
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Contemporary Asian America
by Min Zhou Publisher Comments Contemporary Asian America is the first volume to integrate a broad range of multi-disciplinary research on the ways in which the intersection of Asian immigration, community development, and socialization affect Asian American communities. It exposes...
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: Asian-American Odyssey, an
by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Albany, New York My Mother's Music "I believe that the Japanese word for wife" "literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother. "During the nineteen twenties, when I was a child in Japan, my seventeen-year-old cousin...
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Linda (edt) Gordon Publisher Comments Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army--the majority of which have never been published--this volume evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps....
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Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China
by Emily Prager Publisher Comments In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a...
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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power
by Phoebe Eng Publisher Comments Welcome to the world of the modern Asian American woman, where the willingness to cause "trouble" -- to stir the waters, think deeply, and go against what is expected -- is the first of many steps to self-discovery and power. Now, Phoebe Eng shatters...
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The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
by Karin Evans Synopsis In a personal and journalistic exploration of the thousands of baby girls whoare abandoned in China each year, Evans links the lives of a Chinese baby, anadoptive American mother, and a Chinese mother hidden in the shadows....
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
by Iris Chang Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-475) and index....
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Asian American Women & Men
by Yen Le Espiritu Publisher Comments What is the Asian American experience? What role does gender play within that experience? How do race and economics factor in? Asian American Women and Men answers these questions and examines how Asian American culture is shaped by a variety of forces...
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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China....
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