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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...
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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang Publisher Comments In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has...
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Vintage)
by Eric Liu
Publisher Comments Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays...
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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...
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by Loung Ung Publisher Comments When Loung Ungcame to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father....
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For Better or for Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy
by Hung Cam Thai Synopsis Hung Cam Thai takes a closer look at marriage and migration, with a focus on the unions between Vietnamese men living in the United States and the women who marry them. Weaving together personal stories, he underscores the ironies and challenges that...
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The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience
by Franklin Odo Synopsis < P> 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...
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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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Immigrant Acts - PB
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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Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
by Helen Zia Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book traces the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the events...
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Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America (Mapping Racisms)
by William Wong Synopsis In this funny, sobering, and always enlightening collection of essays, journalist William Wong comments on anomalies of the Asian-American experience. From its opening tribute to the Oakland Chinatown of Wong's childhood to its closing tribute to Tiger...
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Child of War, Woman of Peace
by Le Ly Hayslip Publisher Comments The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam....
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The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
by May Lee Chai Publisher Comments A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly...
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The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother
by William Poy Lee Publisher Comments In the best-selling tradition of The Color of Water comes a beautifully written, evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son; and the Chinese-American experience In The Eighth Promise, author William Poy Lee gives us a rare view of the...
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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 Synopsis 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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Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (Critical American Studies)
by Diane C Fujino Publisher Comments On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist began much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this...
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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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