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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, DVAN is hosting a landmark event in San Francisco on April 26, 2025. Join us for an unforgettable evening of reflections, poetry and music performances by renowned artists of the Vietnamese diaspora.


Saturday, April 26, 2025 / 6-9 PM Doors open at 5 PM / Show starts at 6 PM (with 15-minute intermission) Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, CA 
General Admission Tickets: $56 (including fees) 


If you are a student or community member experiencing financial difficulty, email us to receive a discount code. Limited quantities available.

STILL WE RISE TICKETS

Reflections, Poetry & Music Performances


Still We Rise
​​Panel Discussion featuring
Viet Thanh Nguyen, An-My Lê, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Poetry : Alexandra Huynh, Bao Phi, Paul Tran, Thy Hope Luong


Music Performances: Thao and Thanh Tân



Eastwind Books table at Still We Rise Feature New Vietnamese American Titles 
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Deport/ Exclude/ Revoke/ Imprison:
Immigration and Citizenship Rights during Crisis.
Asian American Community and Campus Panel Discussion


United States v. Wong Kim Ark held that the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship applies to all people born in the United States, regardless of their race or their parents' national origin or immigration status. However, discriminatory exclusion for citizens and noncitizens alike during times of heightened fears of alleged 'national security' and safety continue to threaten this core Constitutional right. Current events are again raising the specter of politicization and polarization of citizenship rights, immigration visas,naturalization rights, and the right to free speech.

Panel Participants :
Michael Chang, Ethnic Studies faculty, UCB
Harvey Dong, Ethnic Studies Senior Lecturer, UCB
Christopher Lapinig, Senior Staff Attorney, Asian Law Caucus -
Annie Lee, Esq., Managing Director of Policy Chinese for Affirmative Action
Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley School of Law
Norman Wong, special guest (descendant of Wong Kim Ark)

The Panel will discuss:

1. Meaning of birthright citizenship and how communities are organizing to defend it today

2. Birthright citizenship litigation

3. Current deportation cases including Alien Enemy Act and 1952 Immigration Act that’s being used to deport the undocumented and documented today

4. Intersection between immigration and criminal legal systems, particularly deportation of formerly incarcerated South East Asian American refugee youth and the need for pardons

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Co-sponsors : UCB Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, UCB Asian American Research Center,, UCB Center for Race and Gender, UCB Department of Ethnic Studies, Asian Law Caucus, Chinese For Affirmative Action, Eastwind Books


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Stay True: A Memoir (AUTHOR SIGNED)

$17.00 $15.00

Author: Hua Hsu

Publisher: Knopf/Doubleday: 2023

Format: Paperback

Condition: New

ISBN: 9780593315200


AUTHOR SIGNED BOOK AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST


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In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken--with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity--is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes 'zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them.But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends--his memories--Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he's been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.


AUTHOR

HUA HSU is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. During his college years, he worked at Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

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Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

$29.99

Author: Bianca Mabute-Louie

Publisher: Harper: 2025

Format: Hardcover: New

ISBN: 9780063277625


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A scholar and activist's brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions.


In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie transforms the ways we understand race, class, citizenship, and the concept of assimilation and its impact on Asian American communities from the nineteenth century to present day.

UNASSIMILABLE opens with a focus on the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), the first Asian ethnoburb in Los Angeles County and in the nation, where she grew up. A suburban neighborhood with a conspicuous Asian immigrant population, SGV thrives not because of its assimilation into Whiteness, but because of its unapologetic catering to its immigrant community.


Mabute-Louie then examines "Predominantly White Institutions With A lot of Asians" and how these institutions shape the racial politics of Asian Americans and Asian internationals, including the fight against affirmative action and the fight for ethnic studies. She moves on to interrogate the role of the religion, showing how the immigrant church is a sanctuary even as it is an extension of colonialism and the American Empire. In the book's conclusion, Bianca looks to the future, boldly proposing a reconsideration of the term Asian American for a new label that better clarifies who Asians in America are today.


UNASSIMILABLE offers a radical vision of Asian American political identity informed by a refusal of Whiteness and collective care for each other. It is a forthright declaration against assimilation and in service of cross-racial, anti-imperialist solidarity and revolutionary politics. Scholarly yet accessible, informative and informed, this book is a major addition to Ethnic Studies and American Studies.



AUTHOR

Bianca Mabute-Louie is an award-winning sociologist, speaker, and activist completing her PhD at Rice University, where she researches the intersections of race, religion, and politics. She is published in top academic journals, including Social Forces and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, as well as in public outlets like Elle Magazine. Bianca has been featured in CNN, TIME, ABC, LA Times, among other outlets. Over the last decade, Bianca has served Asian American community organizations and taught Asian American Studies. Through her work in academia and the community, Bianca is committed to the praxis of solidarity and collective liberation.

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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, 2nd Ed.

$29.95

Editors: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, & Judy Yung

Publisher: University of Washington: 2014

Format: Paper

Condition: New

ISBN: 9780295994079

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Fighting to Belong!: (Vol 1) Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1700s Through the 1800s

$11.95

Amy Chu, Alexander Chang & Louie Chin

Third State Books: 2024

Paperback: New

9798890130174  


In this book, the first volume of a three-book series, our middle school protagonists Padmini, Sammy, Joe, and Tiana and their guide, Kenji, embark on an amazing journey through time to witness key events in AANHPI (Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander) history.


They witness the arrival of the "Manilamen" to the United States in the eighteenth century and fly through significant moments in the next 150 years. Fighting to Belong! helps new audiences young and old, AANHPI and non-AANHPI, understand how these stories are truly interwoven within the fabric of America.


Amy Chu is a writer for comics, graphic novels, and TV, currently working on projects for DC, Marvel and Netflix. She has written popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Ant-Man and Iron Man. She wrote Poison Ivy's first solo mini series, and is the first woman to write the Green Hornet series created in the 1930s. She is also the author of children's graphic novels, including Sea Sirens and the sequel Sky Island (Viking). Amy is the co-founder of the imprint Alpha Girl Comics and enjoys nonprofit work, creating comics for the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Museum of Chinese in America. She studied Architectural Design at MIT, East Asian Studies at Wellesley College, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Amy is a frequent speaker at conventions around the world and lives in New Jersey. You can follow her on amychu.com, twitter @amychu and on Facebook/iwritecomics.


Alexander Chang is a writer and editor for comics and graphic novels.

His published credits include Rick and Morty, Red Sonja, and the Where

We Live anthology. A third generation Chinese American from Princeton,

New Jersey, he loves writing in his journal, growing plants, fire

spinning, and Chinese lion dancing.


Louie Chin is an illustrator whose work includes the children's book, Bodega Cat (POW! Kids Books), which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection in 2020. He has created artworks for a variety of publications and projects, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Nike. He works in both traditional mediums such as watercolor and gouache as well as with digital art software. He was born and raised in New York City, where he still resides.



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Fighting to Belong! (Vol 2): Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, 1900-1970

$11.95

Amy Chu, Alexander Chang & Louie Chin

Third State Books: 2025

Paperback: New

9798890130235


Release Date: May 20, 2025


Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history is American history. The unique experiences, challenges, and contributions of AANHPIs are an integral part of our country's development, but they are rarely taught in American schools.


For many Americans of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander descent who grew up in the United States, there continues to be a startling lack of opportunity to learn about our own history in our country. Even today, over 70% of Americans have little knowledge about AANHPI history or confuse it with Asian history. Fighting to Belong! Volume Two: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History, 1900-1970, written by best-selling writer Amy Chu (Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Ant-Man, Iron Man) and Alexander Chang and illustrated by Louie Chin (Bodega Cat), shares this important and dynamic part of the American experience in an accessible and engaging graphic novel format.


In this book, the second volume of a three-book series, our middle school protagonists Padmini, Sammy, Joe, and Tiana and their guide, Kenji, embark on an amazing journey through time to witness key events in AANHPI history. Fighting to Belong! Volume Two helps new audiences young and old, AANHPI and non-AANHPI, understand how these stories are truly interwoven within the fabric of America.



Amy Chu is a writer for comics, graphic novels, and TV, currently working on projects for DC, Marvel and Netflix. She has written popular characters such as Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Ant-Man and Iron Man. She wrote Poison Ivy's first solo mini series, and is the first woman to write the Green Hornet series created in the 1930s. She is also the author of children's graphic novels, including Sea Sirens and the sequel Sky Island (Viking). Amy is the co-founder of the imprint Alpha Girl Comics and enjoys nonprofit work, creating comics for the New York Historical Society, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Museum of Chinese in America. She studied Architectural Design at MIT, East Asian Studies at Wellesley College, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Amy is a frequent speaker at conventions around the world and lives in New Jersey. You can follow her on amychu.com, twitter @amychu and on Facebook/iwritecomics.


Alexander Chang is a writer and editor for comics and graphic novels. His published credits include Rick and Morty, Red Sonja, and the Where We Live anthology. A third generation Chinese American from Princeton, New Jersey, he loves writing in his journal, growing plants, fire spinning, and Chinese lion dancing.


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Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

$50.00 $45.00

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

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Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America

$35.00

Author: William Gee Wong

Publisher: Temple: 2024

Format: Hardcover

Condition: New

ISBN: 9781439924877


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Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

$28.00

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Publisher: Grove Press

Date: October 3, 2023

Format: Hardcover: 400 pages

Condition: New

ISBN: 9780802160508

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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

$20.00

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

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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest

$35.00 $30.00

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.

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The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements

$19.99

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

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Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine

$18.99

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.


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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2ND ed.)

$19.99

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.



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