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Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Unearth the origins of Napa Valley's prosperity. Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley. Throughout the late 1800s, they toiled in...
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Korean Americans in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Koreans first began to immigrate to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. Drawn to the Windy City in search of a better life for themselves and ...
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The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest a...
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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction category Finalist in the Culinary...
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Growing Up in San Francisco's Chinatown: Boomer Memories from Noodle Rolls to Apple Pie
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Chinese American baby boomers who grew up within the twenty-nine square blocks of San Francisco's Chinatown lived in two worlds. Elders implored...
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AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s sw...
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Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating...
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The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest a...
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Westminster
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Westminster Colony was founded in 1870 by Presbyterian minister Rev. Lemuel P. Webber. The colony, based on Protestant Christian tenets and tempera...
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Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as “domestic enemy aliens” during World War II, most other Americans succumbed t...
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The Loneliest Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A "provocative and sweeping" (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Blac...
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Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This sorry episode has been illuminated in books and documentaries. But I've never felt its emotional texture--the unexpected mix of dereliction an...
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Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family's Fate
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror "If Concepcion were...
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Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the move...
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Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially ...
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An Eye for Injustice: Robert C. Sims and Minidoka
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /As wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and th...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas - and on the home front, has loc...
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A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (Kdp)
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American communit...
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Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Please don't cry," wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in F...
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The Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Through family interviews, original photographs, and national records, Beatrice Loftus McKenzie traces the many lives of a resilient multigeneratio...
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Mr. Chinatown: The Legacy of H.K. Wong
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Mr. Chinatown is the engaging story of San Francisco Chinatown entrepreneur and community leader H.K. Wong. A second-generation Chinese American, h...
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I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment
PaperbackOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Toyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as "Japanese America's poet laureate." But Suyemoto has always described herse...
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Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In ...
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Uncle Rico's Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant raci...
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