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Association of Korean Adoptees Poetry Reading

Saturday, August 28th, 4:00 PM

Featuring poets: Lee Herrick, Jo Rankin, Kira Donnell and Matthew Cisco. 

Juliet S. Kono Reading: Anshu: Dark Sorrow

Friday, September 10th, 6:30 PM.

Based on historical events, Anshu is a tale of passion and human triumph int he face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai'i and the devastation of Hiroshima. 

Barbara Reyes Reading: Diwata, and will be joined with 2 other Pinoy writers: 

 Saturday, October 16th, 3:00 PM

Reyes's voice is grounded in her community's traditions and histories despite war and geographical dislocation. In her book, Diwata, Reyes uses traditional Filipino oral devices as meter and repetition to tell a song, story, and poem about Filiphino cultural and history. 

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The Forbidden Book

Authors:  Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel & Helen Toribio

Available for individual, retail and institutional orders orders in mid-August.  Contact us for more information.

An astounding collection of political cartoons created by Western public media to justify American colonization of Philippines during the time of the Philippine-US War. The book will alert you to the historical secrets that have been used to steer a nation to war. Filipinos are stereotyped as "savages" or "little brown brothers" to be directed and civilized by American institutions and policies.

The book features 88 colored cartoons taken from the pages of popular magazines along with 133 black and white political cartoons reprinted from newspapers including the San Francisco Evening Post, New York World, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquire, New Orleans Times-Democrat, Minnesota Journal, St. Louis Republic, Detroit News, Denver Evening Post, Los Angeles Times and more. 27 historical photographs are added to compare and contrast with the cartoons' stereotyped depictions.

STAND UP: An Archive Collection of the Bay Area Asian American Movement, 1968-1974 Asian Community Center Archive Group.

Stand Up chronicles the beginning of the Bay Area Asian American movement through an unprecedented collection of period newspaper articles, documents, and photographs. From the Third World Liberation Front student strikes at San Francisco State College and University of California Berkeley campuses, to the formation of the Asian American Political Alliance, this book traces the origins of student concerns and follows the movement into the Asian American communities, by focusing on the International Hotel tenants fight against eviction and the formation of the Asian Community Center in San Francisco Chinatown-Manilatown.

"The Asian American Movement of the 1960s-70s has been largely ignored by those who have researched and written about the civil rights and social justice movements of those turbulent decades. Asian Community Center Archive Group has done an excellent job of compiling the key documents that give us a historical overview of the issues and organizations that contributed to the emergence of the Asian American Movement. Most importantly, it will be an important organizational tool for today's activists in their efforts to educate youth in their communities about the historic role Asian Americans have played in our nation's history of struggles for racial/ethnicand social justice."

(Carlos Muñoz, Jr., author of "Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement")

ISBN 978-0-615-27903-9 Price $20. 222 pages. 8.5 x11 inches. Trade paperback. Publisher: Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

Chinese Medical Qigong

Combining the traditional therapies of Qigong with the most recent outcomes of modern scientific research, it provides an authoritative introduction to the knowledge system and contents of Qigong study. This textbook will be a useful tool for medical students and healthcare professionals interested in complementary and alternative therapies as well as for anyone who would like to learn more about the beneficial medical applications of Qigong.