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Asian American Yearbook: A Unique Resource and Referral Guide for and about Asian Pacific Americans
by Tiym Publishing Comp  Publisher Comments The Asian American community has found its authoritative guide in this reference to practical, political, financial, educational, and professional areas of community life. Statistical data and comprehensive listings provide readers access to financial...
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Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation Among Asian Indian Immigrants
by Jean Bacon Publisher Comments Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a...
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Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
by Vickie Nam Publisher Comments Chapter OneOrientation: Finding the Way HomeThe day after my high school graduation, I boarded a plane. Next stop, Korea. My parents waved good-bye with nervous yet hopeful smiles, and my mom yelled,"Behave yourself!" like she always did when I was...
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The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience
by Franklin Odo Publisher Comments This collection of key documents presents the rich Asian American heritage through primary sources -- speeches, diary entries, editorials, advertisements, court opinions, legislation, songs, and poems -- along with expert, concise editorial commentary...
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Columbia Guide To Asian American History (05 Edition)
by Gary Y. Okihiro Publisher Comments 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....
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah 
Publisher Comments Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield...
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Shock of Arrival: Postcolonial Reflections
by Meena Alexander Publisher Comments Contents Overture Another Voice Piecmeal Shelters Piecemeal Shelters Art of Pariahs Language and Shame Alphabets of Flesh Passion Skin Song Whose House is This? House of a thousand Doors Hotel Alexandria Sidi Syed's Architecture Tangled Roots Poem by the...
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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
by Benson Tong Synopsis "Unsubmissive Women" explores the lives of Chinese girls and women shipped to San Francisco in the 19th century and forced into prostitution. They maintained their will to alter their fate, survived subjugation, and quite often escaped to establish...
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American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)
by Sunil Bhatia Publisher Comments "In this comprehensive and important piece of scholarship, Bhatia effectively blends identity theory and ethnography to examine the immigrant experience of first-generation, professional Indians. Provoking reflection on the racial dynamics and identity...
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Ten Thousand Sorrows the Extraordinary
by Elizabeth Kim Synopsis Not since "Angela's Ashes" has there been a story about childhood told with so much poignancy and triumph over the odds as Elizabeth Kim's harrowing memoir. A mixed-race bastard, Elizabeth witnessed the hanging murder of her mother in their small Korean...
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Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
by Nancy Abelmann Publisher Comments No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against...
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New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (American Lectures on the History of Religions)
by Bruce B Lawrence Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index....
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Strangers from a Different Shore
by Ronald Takaki
Publisher Comments In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields...
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The Bride Wore Red
by Robbie Clippe Sethi Synopsis The Bride Wore Red is a collection of short stories about an extended Indian family in the United States - cousins from New Delhi who marry European-Americans, and parents who come to live with them in suburban New Jersey and California. The stories are...
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments “ The journey she takes us on… is fascinating, proving that stories are everywhere, even in the humble proverb.’...
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Screaming Monkeys : Critiques of Asian American Images (03 Edition)
by M. Evelina (ed.) Galang Publisher Comments When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, "Screaming Monkeys "sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and...
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Paper daughter :a memoir
by M Elaine Mar Publisher Comments A heartfelt and poignant memoir about the quintessential struggle to fit in -- told with wit and triumph through the eyes of a poor Chinese immigrant girl who exists in two worlds, belongs to neither, and struggle desperately to reconcile her place in...
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Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship
by Michael Chang Publisher Comments Following 1996's Asian Donorgate campaign finance controversy, Chinese Americans, and by proxy all Asian Americans, were depicted in U.S. public discourse as foreigners subversively attempting to buy influence with U.S. politicians. Racial Politics in an...
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Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
by James M Freeman Publisher Comments The first-person narratives in this book provide a glimpse into the personal lives of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans who were devastated by war and the refugee experience but who were able to create new lives in a new cultural environment....
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Masking Selves, Making Subjects
by Traise Yamamoto Publisher Comments This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism...
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