Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Tastes Like War: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.Product DetailsI...
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselli...
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Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group i...
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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American StudiesArkansas, 1943. The Deep South durin...
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative accou...
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Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain...
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The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781880656334 ...
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Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This poignant memoir traces 4 generations of family trauma against the backdrop of Korea's modern history for readers who love a sweeping intergene...
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Western Journeys
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the A...
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Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. ...
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Korean-American Stories: Collection of Autobiographies (Color Paperback)
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$86.99$86.99 - $86.99Current price $86.99| /This book contains autobiographies by 12 individuals of Korean descent. However, their background experiences are vastly different. The editor of t...
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...
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Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /"I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life...had their start...
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Water Thicker Than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood
HardcoverOriginal price $110.50 - Original price $110.50Original price $110.50$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /"I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life...had their start...
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We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet: Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A father's personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family's experiences, and his search for how to help his children overco...
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions.What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can ...
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Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A memoir written by Juanita Tamayo Lott, a participant in the 1968 San Francisco State College Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) Strike to establ...
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Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ...
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Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It just didn't sit right. The American Embassy had reported the accidental death of Jerry "Hog" Daniels by carbon monoxide poisoning. Three decades...
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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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Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution Volume 60
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching li...
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Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroo...
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Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Writt...
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