Asian Americans: Resources in the Kent Stark Library

(Published from 2000-present)

 

 

REFERENCE

 

Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

REFERENCE                                    PS153.A84 A825 2000

 

The Asian Databook: Detailed Statistics And Rankings On The Asian And Pacific Islander Population, Including 23 Ethnic Backgrounds From Bangladeshi To Vietnamese, For 1,883 U.S. Counties And Cities / [editor, David Garoogian].  Millerton, NY : Grey House Pub., c2005.

REFERENCE                                    E184.A75 A78 2005

 

Atlas Of Asian-American History / Monique Avakian.  New York : Facts on File, c2002.

REFERENCE                                    E184.A75 A89 2002  

 

Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist For Grades K-8.  Urbana, IL : National Council of Teachers of English, c2003.  4th ed.

REFERENCE                                    Z1361.E4 K34 2003

 

 

CIRCULATING BOOKS

 

American Inquisition: The Hunt For Japanese American Disloyalty In World War II / Eric L. Muller.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

D769.8.A6 M85 2007

 

Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities / Harry H.L. Kitano, Roger Daniels.  Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001.

E184.O6 K57 2001

 

By Order Of The President: FDR And The Internment Of Japanese Americans / Greg Robinson.  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

D769.8.A6 R63 2001

 

Catfish And Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through The Landscape And Memory Of Vietnam / Andrew X. Pham.  New York : Picador USA, 2000, c1999.

E184.V53 P455 2000  

 

China Complex: From The Sublime To The Absurd On The U.S.-China Scene / Shouhua Qi.  San Francisco : Long River Press, c2009.

E183.8.C5 Q247 2009

 

The Columbia Documentary History Of The Asian American Experience / edited by Franklin Odo.  New York : Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2002.

E184.O6 C63 2002  

 

The Columbia Guide To Asian American History / Gary Y. Okihiro.  New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

E184.O6 C64 2001

 

The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond The Model Minority / Timothy P. Fong.  Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.  2nd ed.

E184.O6 F66 2002

 

Covering: The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights / Kenji Yoshino.  New York : Random House, c2006.

KF373.A3 Y67 2006  

 

Escape From Saigon: How A Vietnam War Orphan Became An American Boy / Andrea Warren.  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

E184.V53 S74 2004  

 

A Feeling Of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960 / Shirley Jennifer Lim.  New York : New York University Press, c2006.

E184.A75 L56 2006

 

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures In The World Of Chinese Food / Jennifer 8. Lee.  New York, NY : Twelve, 2008.

TX945.4 .L44 2008

 

Gang Of One: Memoirs Of A Red Guard / Fan Shen.  Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

CT1828.S46 A3 2004

 

The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Thi Diem Thúy.  New York : Alfred A. Knopf : distributed by Random House, 2003.

PS3612.E2 G36 2003  

 

Heart Of A Samurai: Based On The True Story Of Manjiro Nakahama / Margi Preus.  New York : Amulet Books, 2010.

YOUNG PEOPLE                PZ7.P92434 He 2010

 

Impounded: Dorothea Lange And The Censored Images Of Japanese American Internment / Dorothea Lange ; edited by Linda Gordon, Gary Y. Okihiro.  New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.

D769.8.A6 L35 2006

 

In Defense Of Internment: The Case For "Racial Profiling" In World War II And The War On Terror / Michelle Malkin.  Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2004.

HV8141 .M245 2004

 

Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, And Health Politics, 1880-1950 / Susan L. Smith.  Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.

RG950 .S655 2005  

 

Japanese War Brides In America: An Oral History / Miki Ward Crawford, Katie Kaori Hayashi, and Shizuko Suenaga.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

E184.J3 W29 2010

 

Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata.  New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.

YOUNG PEOPLE                PZ7.K1166 Ki 2004

 

Legacy To Liberation: Politics & Culture Of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America / edited by Fred Ho, with Carolyn Antonio ... [et al.].  Edinburgh ; San Francisco : AK, 2000.

E184.O6 L484 2000  

 

The Life Of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders / Masayo Duus ; translated by Peter Duus.  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

NB237.N6 D8813 2004

 

The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, And The Children Of War In Vietnam / Dana Sachs.  Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2010.

DS559.8.C53 S23 2010

 

Lost And Found: Reclaiming The Japanese American Incarceration / Karen L. Ishizuka ; foreword by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Roger Daniels.  Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

D769.8.A6 I78 2006

 

Making A Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists In New York / Eric C. Shiner and Reiko Tomii.  New York : Japan Society ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press [distributor], c2007.

OVERSIZED                         N6538.J32 S55 2007  

 

More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women On Expectations, Relationships, Leadership And Faith / Nikki A. Toyama and Tracey Gee ; editors, Kathy Khang, Christine Heller de Leon, and Asifa Dean, consulting editor Jeanette Yep.  Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2006.

BR563.A82 M67 2006

 

The Namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri.  New York : Mariner Books, 2004.

PS3562.A316 N36 2004  

 

Nikkei Farmer On The Nebraska Plains: A Memoir / Hisanori Kano ; introduced and edited by Tai Kreidler ; from a translation by Rose Yamamoto.  Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2010.

E184.J3 K255 2010  

 

The New Face Of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity & Change In The 21st Century / edited by Eric Lai & Dennis Arguelles.  San Francisco : AsianWeek, with UCLA's Asian American Studies Center Press, in cooperation with the Organization of Chinese Americans and the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development, c2003.

OVERSIZED                         E184.O6 N3885 2003  

 

Nine Dragons: A Novel / Michael Connelly.  New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

PS3553.O51165 N56 2009

 

One Way Or Another: Asian American Art Now / edited by Melissa Chiu, Karin Higa, and Susette S. Min ; with essays by Margo Machida, Helen Zia ; with contributions by Atteqa ALi et. al. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Asia Society with Yale University Press, 2006.

N6538.A83 O54 2006  

 

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience / edited with introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada ; preface by Patricia Wakida ; afterword by William Hohri.  Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books ; San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society, c2000.

D769.8.A6 O55 2000  

 

The Opposite Of Fate: A Book Of Musings / Amy Tan.  New York : Putnam, c2003.

PS3570.A48 O67 2003

 

Perfume Dreams: Reflections On The Vietnamese Diaspora / Andrew Lam ; foreword by Richard Rodriguez.  Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2005.

E184.V53 L36 2005

 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Mohsin Hamid.  Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.

PS3558.A42169 R45 2007  

 

The Sculpture Of Ruth Asawa: Contours In The Air / Daniell Cornell ... [et al.].  [San Francisco] : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

OVERSIZED                         N6537.A74 A4 2007  

 

Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women In The Military During World War II / Brenda L. Moore.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.

UA565.W6 M66 2003

 

The Sum Of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans / edited by Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima ; foreword by Michael Omi.  Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2001.

E184.O6 .S86 2001

 

A Thousand Miles Of Dreams: The Journeys Of Two Chinese Sisters / Sasha Su-Ling Welland.  Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, c2006.

CT275.L4695 W45 2006

 

A Tiger's Heart: The Story Of A Modern Chinese Woman / Aisling Juanjuan Shen.  New York : Soho, c2009.

E184.C5 S533 2009

 

To Be The Poet / Maxine Hong Kingston.  Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

PS3561.I52 Z48 2002  

 

A Tragedy Of Democracy: Japanese Confinement In North America / Greg Robinson.  New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

D769.8.A6 R64 2009

 

The Unwanted: A Memoir / Kien Nguyen.  Boston : Little Brown, c2001.

E184.V53 N36 2001

 

Voices Of The Heart: Asian American Women On Immigration, Work, And Family / Huping Ling.  [Kirksville, Mo.] : Truman State University Press, c2007.

F358.2.A75 L56 2007

 

Women's Issues In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gary Wiener, book editor.  Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.

PS3570.A48 J639 2008

 

Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White / Frank H. Wu.  New York : Basic Books, c2002.

E184.O6 W84 2002

 

 

SELECTED INTERNET SITES

 

·         Asian Nation

http://www.asian-nation.org/heritage.shtml

 

·         Asian Pacific American Heritage.  Scholastic.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/asian-american/

 

·         Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  Info Please Almanac.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/asianhistory1.html

 

·         Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  Library of Congress

http://asianpacificheritage.gov/

 

·         Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  Smithsonian Institution.

http://smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/apahm/index.html

 

 

·         Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  National Register of Historic Places.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/asia/

 

·         Asian Pacific American Heritage (and History) Month.  IMDiversity.com.

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/history_heritage/asian_pacific_american_heritage_month.asp

 

·         Presidential Proclamation – Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/29/presidential-proclamation-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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