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Asian American Histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy - Beacon Press Format: Paperback
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Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine... |
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang - Doubleday Format: Book
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In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America,... |
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts Format: Book
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Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family's daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart... |
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
Julia Lee - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Book
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In the vein of Eloquent Rage and Minor Feelings - a passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification. When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean... |
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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
Albert Samaha - Riverhead Books Format: Book
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Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their... |
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books Format: Book
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"This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book - at its core - is not about immigration at all. This book is about homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves... |
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
Thien Pham - First Second Format: Book
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Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle... |
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong - One World Format: Book
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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings."... |
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Ava Chin - Penguin Press Format: Book
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As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family history was shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents' stories didn't match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin's quest to understand her Chinese American... |
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Phuc Tran - Flatiron Books Format: Book
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In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books... |
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They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
Prachi Gupta - Crown Format: Book
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How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain - and lose - by taking control of our narrative? These questions propel Prachi Gupta's heartfelt memoir and can feel particularly fraught for immigrants... |
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
ALICE WONG - Vintage Format: Paperback
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In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian... |
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