Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books Present
Sunday, September 22nd 1pm
🎨 Free Pre-event Coloring Activity by Illustrator Minnie Phan at 12 pm
at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Free Event
Join Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books for the release of Simone, an exciting new picture book, with words by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and art by illustrator Minnie Phan. Simone is an unforgettable story of a Vietnamese American girl whose life is transformed by a wildfire.
Viet and Minnie hope Simone inspires a generation to pick up a pencil, to create daringly, and to dream fiercely a new vision for a more collective, collaborative, and compassionate future.
Eastwind Books Picks Simone as Best Children's book in 2024
TOP PICKS FROM EASTWIND!
Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Photographs By Corky Lee
Forword by Hua Hsu
Edited by Chee Wang Ng and Mae Ngai
Publisher: Clarkson Porter
Release Date: April 9, 2024
Format: Hardcover: 320 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780593580127
A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time
Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
Author: William Gee Wong
Publisher: Temple: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781439924877
Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial (AUTHOR-SIGNED)
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Grove Press
Date: October 3, 2023
Format: Hardcover: 400 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780802160508
AUTHOR-SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
DVAN 2023
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
Editors: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
Publisher: Penguin: 2024
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780143133285
DESCRIPTION
"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. A Penguin Classic This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization - all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action. The selections favor the pointed over the poignant, and the unknown over the familiar, with several new translations among previously unseen works that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language. The writings are presented chronologically so that readers can trace the continuum of events as the incarcerees experienced it. The contributors span incarcerees, their children born in or soon after the camps, and their descendants who reflect on the long-term consequences of mass incarceration for themselves and the nation. Many of the voices are those of protest. Some are those of accommodation. All are authentic. Together they form an epic narrative with a singular vision of America's past, one with disturbing resonances with the American present"
EDITORS
Frank Abe is co-author of the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse and the American Book Award-winning John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, and creator of the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution. Floyd Cheung is a professor of English at Smith College. He has edited several books including the Penguin Classics edition of H.T. Tsiang's The Hanging on Union Square, and is co-editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, and John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.
CONTENTS
Preface by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung
THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATIONPART I: BEFORE CAMP
Introduction to Part I
Arrival and Community
1. Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, "Arrival in San Francisco" and "The Turlock Incident"
2. Ayako Ishigaki (as Haru Matsui), "Whither Immigrants"
3. Toshio Mori, "Lil' Yokohama"
Arrest and Alien Internment
4. Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota, "Those Airplanes Outside Aren't Ours"
5. Kamekichi Tokita, "1941 (Showa 16)"
6. John Okada (as Anonymous), "I Must Be Strong"
7. Bunyu Fujimura, "Arrest"
8. Fujiwo Tanisaki, "They Took Our Father Too"
9. Otokichi Ozaki (as Muin Ozaki), "Fort Sill Internment Camp"
10. Yasutaro Soga (as Keiho Soga), "Sand Island and Santa Fe Internment Camps"
11. Iwao Matsushita, "I Can't Bear to Be Stigmatized as 'Potentially Dangerous' "
Cooperation and Refusal EXECUTIVE ORDER
12. James Omura, "Has the Gestapo Come to America?"
13. Mike Masaoka, "Decision to Cooperate" 50 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY
14. Gordon K. Hirabayashi, "Why I Refuse to Register for Evacuation"
15. Charles Kikuchi, "Kicked Out of Berkeley"PART II: THE CAMPS
Introduction to Part II
Fairgrounds and Racetracks
16. Monica Sone, "Life in Camp Harmony"
17. Mitsuye Yamada, "Curfew"
18. Portland Senryū Poets, "Resolution and Readiness, Confusion and Doubt"
19. Yoshio Abe, "Lover's Lane"
Deserts and Swamps RECOMMENDATIONS TO MILTON EISENHOWER, DIRECTOR, WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
20. Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, "Fry Bread"
21. Toyo Suyemoto, "Barracks Home"
22. Authorship uncertain, "That Damned Fence"
23. Kiyo Sato, "I Am a Prisoner in a Concentration Camp in My Own Country"
24. Masae Wada, "Gila Relocation Center Song"
25. Cherry Tanaka, "The Unpleasantness of the Year"
26. Hiroshi Nakamura, "Alice Hasn't Come Home"
27. Joe Kurihara, "The Martyrs of Camp Manzanar"
28. Iwao Kawakami, "The Paper"
29. Nao Akutsu, "Send Back the Father of These American Citizens"
Registration and Segregation STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES CITIZEN OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY
30. Topaz Resident Committee, "We Respectfully Ask for Immediate Answers"
31. Kentaro Takatsui, "The Factual Causes and Reasons Why I Refused to Register"
32. Sada Murayama, "Loyalty"
33. Mitsuye Yamada, "Cincinnati"
CONFIDENTIAL STATEMENT TO DILLON MYER, DIRECTOR, WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
34. Kazuo Kawai (as Ryōji Hiei), "This Is Like Going to Prison"
35. Noboru Shirai, "The Army Takes Control"
36. Hyakuissei Okamoto, "Several brethren arrested after martial law was declared at Tule Lake in November 1943"
37. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, "Brother's Imprisonment"
38. Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye, "Hunger Strike"
39. Bunichi Kagawa , " Geta"
Volunteers and the Draft
40. Minoru Masuda, "A Lonely and Personal Decision"
41. Tamotsu Shibutani, "The Activation of Company K"
42. Toshio Mori, "She Is My Mother, and I Am the Son Who Volunteered"
43. Jōji Nozawa, "Father of Volunteers"
44. Fuyo Tanagi and the Mothers Society of Minidoka, "Petition to President Roosevelt"
45. Yoshito Kuromiya, "Fair Play Committee"
46. Frank Emi and the Fair Play Committee, "We Hereby Refuse . . . In Order to Contest the Issue"
47. Eddie Yanagisako and Kenroku Sumida, "Song of Cheyenne"
Resegregation and Renunciation AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR LOSS OF UNITED STATES NATIONALITY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
48. Noboru Shirai, " Wa Shoi Wa Shoi, the Emergence of the 'Headband' Group"
49. Motomu Akashi, "Badges of Honor"
50. Joe Kurihara, "Japs They Are, Citizens or Not"
51. Hiroshi Kashiwagi, "Starting from Loomis . . . Again"PART III: AFTER CAMP
Introduction to Part III
Resettlement and Reconnection
52. James Takeda (as Bean Takeda), "The Year Is 2045"
53. David Mura, "Internment Camp Psychology"
54. Shizue Iwatsuki, "Returning Home"
55. Toyo Suyemoto, "Topaz, Utah"
56. Janice Mirikitani, "We, the Dangerous"
57. Amy Uyematsu, "December 7 Always Brings Christmas Early"
58. Brian Komei Dempster, "Your Hands Guide Me Through Trains"
59. Christine Kitano, "1942: In Response to Executive Order 9066, My Father, Sixteen, Takes"
Redress
60. Shosuke Sasaki and the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee, "An Appeal for Action to Obtain Redress for the World War II Evacuation and Imprisonment of Japanese Americans" 247 PERSONAL JUSTICE DENIED, PART 2: RECOMMENDATIONS
61. William Minoru Hohri, "The Complaint"
62. Jeanne Sakata, " Coram Nobis Press Conference" 260 LETTER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
63. traci kato- iriyama, "No Redress"
Repeating History
64. Perry Miyake, "Evacuation, the Sequel"
65. Fred Korematsu, "Do We Really Need to Relearn the Lessons of Japanese American Internment?"
66. Brandon Shimoda, "We Have Been Here Before"
67. Brynn Saito, "Theses on the Philosophy of History"
68. Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki, "Never Again Is Now" 287
The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
Author: Satsuki Ina
Publisher: Heyday: 2024
Format: Hardcover: 291 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781597146265
DESCRIPTION
The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family’s saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity. With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amidst one of the severest blows to American civil liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her family’s ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with galvanizing power.
AUTHOR
Satsuki Ina is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in community trauma. She helps victims of oppression to claim not only their voice but also their power to transform the systems that have oppressed them. Her activism has included cofounding Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites. Ina has produced two documentaries about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Children of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, Democracy Now! and the documentary And Then They Came for Us. A professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
Author: Kai Naima Williams
Publisher: Kapernick Publishing: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781960571007
Young Readers: Ages 5-8.
Description
Debut children's picture book author Kai Naima Williams -- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama -- intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism. From Yuri's incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of the people -- especially young people -- to bring about social change.
Through imaginative writing and vibrant illustrations by Anastasia Magloire Williams, THE BRIDGES YURI BUILT is sure to inspire young readers to embrace Yuri's unwavering belief that together we can build a bridge to a better world.
"The legacy I would like to leave is that people try to build bridges and not walls." -- Yuri Kochiyama
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
Author: Hannah Moushbeck
Illustrator: Reem Madou
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2023
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781797202051
For children: 5 to 8.
DESCRIPTION
A father and his daughters may not be able to return home . . . but they can celebrate stories of their homeland!As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland--Palestine. Through their father's memories, the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of juice vendors beating rhythms with brass cups, the smell of argileh drifting through windows, and the sight of doves flapping their wings toward home. These daughters of the diaspora feel love for a place they have never been, a home they cannot visit. But, as their father's story comes to an end, they know that through his memories, they will always return.A Palestinian family celebrates the stories of their homeland in this moving autobiographical picture book debut by Hannah Moushabeck. With heartfelt illustrations by Reem Madooh, this story is a love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people that transcends borders.
AUTHOR
Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and marketer who was raised in a family of booksellers and publishers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.
ILLUSTRATOR
Reem Madooh is an illustrator from Kuwait with an MA in Children's Book Illustration. She is an avid picture book collector and loves narrative storytelling and incorporating a dreamlike atmosphere into her art. As a child, she enjoyed listening to stories of the old days from her parents and grandparents. She also loves za'atar and makes sure to have some every day. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Kuwait.
Palestine...it's something colonial
Author: Hatem Bazian
ISBN: 9789074897815 / 9074897819
Publisher: Amrit
Distributor: Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Format: Trade Paper, 327 pages
Date of Publication: December 2016
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2ND ed.)
Author: Elan Pappe
Publisher: One World: 2007
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781851685554
DESCRIPTION
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."
Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the Middle East.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?
2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State
3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact
4. Finalising a Master Plan
5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet
6. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948
7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June--September 1948
8. Completing the Job: October 1948--January 1949
9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces
10. The Memoricide of the Nakba
11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'
12. Fortress Israel Epilogue
Endnotes
Chronology
Maps and Tables
Bibliography
Index
AUTHOR
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel(Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Author: Rashid Khalidi
Publisher: Metropolitan: 2021
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781250787651
DESCRIPTION
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.
Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
AUTHOR
Rashid Khalidi is the author of Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage, among others. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other journals. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Man in the McIntosh Suit
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly: 2023
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781770466661
Filipino Children's Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales (Favorite Children's Stories)
Title: Filipino Children's Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales (Favorite Children's Stories)
Reading Age: 5 - 10 years
Author: Liana Romulo
Illustrator: Joanne De Leon
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Year: March 3, 2020
Pages: 34 pages
Type: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780804850216
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