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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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American Son
by Brian Ascalon Roley Publisher Comments A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers...
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Were We the Enemy?: A Saga of Hiroshima Survivors in America
by Rinjiro Sodei Publisher Comments In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II...
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Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions
by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas Publisher Comments This collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas....
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Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty & Romance in Taiwan's
by Bonnie Adrian Publisher Comments A fascinating study of Taiwan's bridal industry. The norm in Taiwan has become extravagant Western-style weddings and lavish photos where bride and groom look like anything but themselves, and where certainlfamily members are air brushed out. The book...
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Contributions to the Study of Religion, #148: Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History
by Philip S Foner Publisher Comments Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, and resolutions, this documentary collection focuses on support for the rights of Japanese and Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The book...
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American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Critical American Studies)
by Allan Punzala Isaac Publisher Comments In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American...
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
by Hisaye Yamamoto Publisher Comments In addition to the contents of the original volume, this edition brings back into print the following works: <BR>-- Death Rides the Rails to Poston<BR>-- Eucalyptus<BR>-- A Fire in Fontana<BR>-- Florentine...
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Asian. Woman. Alone.
by Ayoung M Kim Publisher Comments This collection of essays and poems full of wit and honesty describes the journey of a granddaughter seeking acceptance, a daughter seeking reconciliation, and a woman seeking solace from a heavy heart. Fleeing a broken engagement and a family that...
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India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
by Sandhya Shukla Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-302) and index....
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Oracles : My Filipino Grandparents in America (06 Edition)
by Pati Navalta Poblete Publisher Comments ? Story of a Filipino-American girlhood by a working journalist ? Joins our recent group of memoir-driven non-fiction books ? First-hand view of a culture that is not as familiar as many others but is just as traditional Summary This book richly portrays...
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Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to La
by Nadia Kim Publisher Comments Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. Imperial Citizens uses a global framework to investigate how Asians...
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Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
by Broughton Coburn Publisher Comments Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the 84-year-old woman to earn merit by making a...
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The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting in
by Paisley Rekdal Publisher Comments Witty, original, and authentic. A fresh, young Chinese-American voice. --Adeline Yen Mah, author of Falling Leaves As the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley Rekdal grew up wondering where she fit in. The essays in this,...
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Asian American Youth : Culture, Identity and Ethnicit (04 Edition)
by Jennifer Lee Publisher Comments "Asian American Youth" is the first collection to address a wide number of important topics about Asian American youth as a distinctive group. The Asian-origin population constitutes the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the US today. As a...
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Song of Saigon: One Woman's Journey to Freedom
by Anh Vu Sawyer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-288)....
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Good Luck Life
by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant...
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The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting in
by Paisley Rekdal Publisher Comments When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface. Here in this hypnotic...
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Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family
by K Connie Kang Publisher Comments I am more American than Korean in my mind, writes K. Connie Kang, "but am more Korean than American in my soul. As for my heart, it is split in half."...
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