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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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Falling Leaves
by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments A story of greed, hatred and jealousy centred around a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in China. Blamed for her mother's death, and ignored by both her father and her stepmother, she has written a story with the emotional force of a...
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer Publisher Comments Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from over 300 communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the...
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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
by Li Young Lee 
Publisher Comments A personal account by the celebrated Chinese-American poet offers a magical work of memory and myth that recounts a childhood of exile, his father's imprisonment, his discovery of the significance of history, and his search for identity....
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Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage
by Haru Mat Reischauer Review Samurai and Silkis beautifully written, with a sense of intimacy that only firsthand experience and family traditions could confer. It is also a work of broad historical value,since both grandfathers played a major role in reshaping Japan and laying the...
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Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States (Population of the United States in the 1980s)
by Herbert R Barringer Book News Annotation Assembles data from the 1980 and 1990 censuses, as well as other published and unpublished sources, to provide a demographic, social, and economic portrait of these disparate and rapidly changing populations. Coverage is elucidated by over 100 tables...
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Skin Color As a Post-colonial Issue Among Asian-americans
by Ronald E. Hall Book News Annotation Without minimizing White racism or other forms of Western social ills, and without criticizing or passing judgements on Asian-American, Hall (human ecology and social work, Michigan State U.) offers some insight into the implications of skin color for...
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Boat People & Achievement in America: A Study of Family Life, Hard Work, & Cultural Values
by Nathan Caplan Book News Annotation This is a description of an interesting and mostly unknown event in recent history which is touted by the publisher as representing a major revolution in naval warfare. In truth, the event makes a fine politics and espionage thriller, but it hardly...
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This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910
by Sucheng Chan Publisher Comments Based on prodigious research, this book chronicles the activities of the thousands of Chinese agricultural pioneers and entrepreneurs who helped make California the nation's premier agricultural state....
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The Chinese American Family Album (American Family Albums)
by Dorothy Hoobler Publisher Comments The Chinese American Family Album is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official documents, newspaper articles, and excerpts from literature of the past and present--a personal remembrance of an extended family of Chinese immigrants and...
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In Search of a Voice: Karaoke and the Construction of Identity in Chinese America (Everyday Communication)
by Casey Man Kong Lum Publisher Comments Originating in Japan early in the 1970s as a simple sing-along technology, karaoke has become a hybrid media form designed to integrate mass-mediated popular music, video images, computer graphics, and the live musical performance of its human users. Not...
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Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles's Little Manila: Working-Class Filipinos and Popular Culture in the United States (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
by Linda Espana Maram Publisher Comments In this new work, Linda Espaa-Maram analyzes the politics of popular culture in the lives of Filipino laborers in Los Angeles's Little Manila, from the 1920s to the 1940s. The Filipinos' participation in leisure activities, including the thrills of...
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Leaving Deep Water: Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures
by Claire S Chow Synopsis Integrating ethnic identity with mainstream American culture is a complex task. In "Leaving Deep Water" Claire S. Chow deftly explores the many ways that women of Asian descent have forged a place for themselves in modern society. Drawing from the...
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Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
by Lisa Lowe Publisher Comments In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been...
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Everything You Need to Know about Asian-American History
by Lan Cao Publisher Comments One can hardly understand American history without knowing the crucial role people of Asian ancestry have played in shaping our past, politics, and culture. Exploding myths and stereotypes, with more than fifty pages of new material, this absorbing and...
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Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey Into Her Indian Family's Past
by Mira Kamdar Synopsis Kamdar traces her family history to her grandmother's birth in a tiny Indian village, and follows family members across the years, from their homeland to the New World. Photos....
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East to America: Korean American Life Stories
by Elaine H Kim Book News Annotation Presents candid interviews with some 30 Koreans ranging from recent immigrants to third-generation Korean-American gay activists, artists, crime victims, shopkeepers, and mixed-race Koreans grappling with issues such as racial tension, class and...
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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, but I am more Korean than American in my soul.”In this poignant, bittersweet family memoir, K. Connie Kang tells the story of one of America’s most recent, and successful, immigrant groups...
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In the New World: The Making of a Korean American (Kolowalu Books)
by Peter Hyun Publisher Comments In 1924 seventeen-year-old Peter Hyun arrived in Hawaii with three younger siblings, leaving behind family and friends in Japanese-occupied Seoul and the Korean community of exiles in Shanghai. The early chapters of this spirited autobiographical account,...
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Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home
by Thomas Bass Publisher Comments The Vietnamese called the Amerasian children of U.S. servicemen bui doi, "the dust of life". Half American and half Asian, they had been abandoned by their fathers to a xenophobic society that ostracized them. Nor was the U.S. government anxious to...
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