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American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism
$27.95
American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism
Scott Kurashige
UC Press: 2026
Paperback: New
9780520424777
This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-Asian racism integral to the outbreak of white supremacist, misogynist, and colonial violence across 175 years of U.S. history. Written in the radical spirit of Howard Zinn, American Peril represents the culmination of thirty-five years of study and activism by award-winning scholar Scott Kurashige.
From the lynching of Asian immigrants during the exclusion era to the U.S. military's slaughter of Asian civilians, the book connects domestic and global events that have been erased from the official record. Going beyond victimhood, it traces the rise of Asian American community protest and activism in response to the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin and other overlooked tragedies. While many have worked to legislate and prosecute hate crimes, Kurashige argues that hope lies in grassroots activism for multiracial solidarity.
Table of Contents:
Part I How America Erased the Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism (1850s-1970s)
1 - The Violence of Exclusion
2 - The Violence of Empire
3 - From Mass Incarceration to Mass Murder
4 - How Asian Women Become Targets of Violence
5 - The Violence Beyond Vietnam
Part II The Murder of Vincent Chin Remade Asian American Identity and Politics (1980s-Present)
6 - Martyr in the Motor City
7 - White Grievance and the Rise of the Counterrevolution
8 - Naming and Confronting Hate Crimes
9 - When the Police Cause More Harm
10 - Building Community in the Face of Violence
Biographical Note:
Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and coauthor, with Grace Lee Boggs, of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
$20.95
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (Updated, Expanded)
Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
University of California Press: 2012
Paperback: New
9780520272590
A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical, and environmental—and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century’s major social movements—for civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience, and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking, to redefine “revolution” for our times. From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution.
"This groundbreaking book not only represents the best of Grace Lee Boggs, but the best of any radical, visionary thinking in the United States. She reminds us why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making. The conditions we face under neoliberalism and war do, indeed, mark the end of an era in which the old ideological positions of protest are not really relevant or effective--and this book offers a new way forward."--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"
"Grace Boggs has long been a major voice of hope and action for transformation of the United States and the world. Here is her testimony of hope and program for action. It must be taken seriously."
--Immanuel Wallerstein, author of "Utopistics: or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century"
"One of the most accomplished radicals of our time, the Detroit-based visionary Grace Lee Boggs has become one of our most influential and inspiring public intellectuals. "The Next American Revolution" is her powerful reflection on a lifetime of urban revolutionary work, an ode to the courage and brilliance of her late partner James Boggs, and a plain-spoken call for us to address the troubled times we face with a sense of history, a strong set of values, and an unwavering faith in our own creative, restorative powers."
--Jeff Chang, author of "Can't Stop Won't Stop" and "Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America"
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Danny Glover
Preface to the 2012 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Scott Kurashige
1. These Are the Times to Grow Our Souls
2. Revolution as a New Beginning
3. Let's Talk about Malcolm and Martin
4. Detroit, Place and Space to Begin Anew
5. A Paradigm Shift in Our Concept of Education
6. We Are the Leaders We've Been Looking For
Notes
Afterword: In Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein
Index
Biographical Note:
Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) was an activist, writer, and speaker. She has received many human rights and lifetime achievement awards and was celebrated in the National Women's Hall of Fame. Boggs authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (with James Boggs) and Living for Change: An Autobiography. This was her last book.
Scott Kurashige is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.
ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH BOOKS
Her Wild American Self
$17.00
Author: M. Evelina Galang
ISBN: 9781566890403
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Year: 1996
Format: Paper
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781566890403
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Year: 1996
Format: Paper
Condition: New
My First Book of Chinese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book
$12.95
Author: Faye-Lynn Wu
Illustrator: Aya Padron
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing: 2013
Format: Hardcover; New
ISBN: 9780804843676
DESCRIPTION
My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery.
It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children.The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation.With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!
CONTRIBUTORS
Faye-Lynn Wu was born and raised in Taiwan. Her experiences of teaching her own children in the U.S. and managing language programs for early education have led her to focus on introducing language to kids in the most positive way possible. She is the admissions officer at an independent school in Berkley, California, serves on the board of a Chinese language school, and teaches Mandarin. She is the author of Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes.
Aya Padron is a freelance artist who works in many media, among them painting and photography. She is the illustrator of Korean for Beginners and My First Book of Korean Words.
Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories (Hardcover)
$16.95
Author: Phuoc Thi Minh Tran
Illustrated by: Nguyen Thi Hop and Nguyen Dong
Publisher: Tuttle (2015)
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780804844291
My First Book of Hindi Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Hindi Language and Indian Culture
$12.95
Contributor(s): Rina Singh (Author), Farida Zaman (Illustrator)
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing: 2021
Binding: Hardcover: New
ISBN: 9780804850131
DESCRIPTION
My First Book of Hindi Words introduces the Hindi language to preschool children in a gentle, playful way using the English alphabet.
The familiar ABC rhyming structure provides a framework that encourages fun and easy learning from A-Z. A welcoming Indian family introduces everyday Hindi words, including many that have special significance in Indian culture. The vivid illustrations give kids a glimpse of Indian life and show how, despite cultural differences, kids the world over have a lot in common.Linguistic and cultural notes are added to enhance a child's experience and understanding, and to help parents, librarians and educators bring the story to life.
CONTRIBUTORS
Rina Singh is an internationally published author of many critically acclaimed picture books. Her book-- A Forest of Stories--has been translated into several languages including Spanish and Korean. She grew up in India, learning and loving Hindi. She now lives in Toronto, Canada. To learn more about her visit www.rinasingh.com
Farida Zaman is an award winning illustrator producing illustrations for magazines, newspapers, wrapping paper, greetings cards, and billboards. She also uses her fun and colorful artwork to bring picture books to life. She lives with her family and fluffy dog--Pippa--and works from her home studio in Toronto. To see more of her work go to www.faridazaman.com
My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Korean Language and Culture
$10.95
Contributor(s): Kyubyong Park (Author), Henry J Amen (Author), Aya Padron (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780804849401
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Binding: Hardcover
Date of Publication: 2012
My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words.
The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Korean Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech, to introduce core elements of Korean culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages.Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Hangeul, as well as in its Romanized form.With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the nearly 80 million people worldwide that speak Korean!
CONTRIBUTORS
Kyubyong Park works at a Korean publishing company that creates practice books for Koreans learning English. Along with Henry J. Amen, IV, he is the author of Korean for Beginners.
Henry J. Amen, IV, is a freelance editor and writer of language learning materials; he studied Korean while working for a publishing company in Seoul for two years. Along with Kyubyong Park, he is the author of Korean for Beginners.Aya Padron is a freelance artist who works with many media, among them painting and photography. She is the illustrator of Korean for Beginners.
My First Book of Japanese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book
$10.95
Contributor(s): Michelle Haney Brown (Author), Aya Padron (Illustrator)
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing: 2013
Format: Hardcover; New
ISBN: 9780804849531
DESCRIPTION
My First Book of Japanese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Japanese language and culture through everyday words.
The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Japanese Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Japanese speech; to introduce core elements of Japanese culture; to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds; and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages.
Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Kanji (when applicable), Kana, and Romanized form (Romaji).
With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the 125 million people worldwide that speak Japanese!
CONTRIBUTORS
Michelle Haney Brown thrives on awakening preschool through adult students to the wonders of Japan's language and culture. She also teaches cross-cultural navigation to individuals and to groups in organizations such as NASA. She and her family live in Austin, TX.
Aya Padron is a freelance artist who works in many media, among them painting and photography. She is the illustrator of My First Book of Korean Words and My First Book of Chinese Words. She and her husband live in Austin, TX.
My First Book of Tagalog Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Filipino Language and Culture
$10.99
Author: Liana Romulo
Illustrator: Jaime Laurel
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing: 2018
Type: Hardcover; New; 32 pages
ISBN: 9780804850148
Reading Age: 2-5 years
DESCRIPTION
"U is for umaga, the end of the night--when Mama kisses me good morning, and dark becomes light."
My First Book of Tagalog introduces preschool children to the Tagalog language--also known as Filipino--the national language of the Philippines, which has been influenced by both Spanish and English.Important everyday words in Filipino culture are presented in a playful and approachable ABC structure that makes learning fun and easy. Studies have shown that kids this age are developing language skills at a rapid rate--learning new words is a snap for them!The catchy rhymes in this book reinforce learning, and children will be delighted by the charming Filipino kids they meet on each and every page. An introduction to the sounds of Tagalog along with notes on the Filipino language and culture provide a positive learning experience for both youngsters and parents.An introduction to the sounds of Tagalog words, along with kid-friendly notes on linguistics and culture throughout, makes learning to speak Tagalog a positive experience.
CONTRIBUTORS
Liana Romulo spends much of her free time traveling, scuba-diving, and hunting through new and unusual bookstores. A dedicated yoga practitioner, she lives mostly in the Philippines but has also lived in Thailand, Belgium, and the United States. Having grown up in different parts of the world, she knows how important it is to preserve her own heritage and share it with others throughout the world. Her first picture book, Filipino Children's Favorite Stories, was a national bestseller in the Philippines.
Artist Jaime Laurel is a freelance graphic designer based in Manila who has won awards as an art director for an international advertising agency. A longtime video game aficionado, he also creates and develops video games for kids all over the world.
MOUNTAIN MOVERS: Student Activism & The Emergence of Asian American Studies
$22.00
Contributors: Russell Jeung; Karen Umemoto, Harvey Dong; Eric Mar; Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, Arnold Pan
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2019
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780934052542
Note: This anthology was written to commemorate 50th anniversary of the student struggles that led to formation of Asian American Studies at SF State, UC Berkeley and UCLA campuses. This includes commemoration of the TWLF strikes and alliances at all three campuses. Also included are lessons and legacies of the student movements.
Dragon Hoops
$19.99
Author: Gene Luen Yang
Publisher: First Second, 2025
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781250363084
In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.
Gene understands stories--comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins.But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him "Stick" and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships.Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he's seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn't know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons's lives, but his own life as well.
Contributor Bio:
Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. He was named a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2016, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. His graphic novel American Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, was adapted into an original series on Disney+. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His nonfiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, received an Eisner award and a Printz honor. His other comics work includes Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), and Superman Smashes the Klan and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (both with Gurihiru).
Interior Chinatown, A Novel
$17.00
Author: Charles Yu
Publisher: Vintage Books, 2020
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780307948472
Asian Noodles: 86 Classic Recipes from Vietnam, Thailand, China, Korea and Japan
$14.99
Author: Maki Watanabe
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2019
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780804852166
My First Book of Chinese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Chinese Language and Culture (My First Words)
$10.95
Author: Faye Lin-Wu
Publisher: Tuttle: 2013
Format: Hardcover: New
ISBN: 9780804849418
DESCRIPTION
My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery.
It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children.
The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation.
With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!
CONTRIBUTORS
Faye-Lynn Wu was born and raised in Taiwan. Her experiences of teaching her own children in the U.S. and managing language programs for early education have led her to focus on introducing language to kids in the most positive way possible. She is the admissions officer at an independent school in Berkley, California, serves on the board of a Chinese language school, and teaches Mandarin. She is the author of Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes.
Aya Padron is a freelance artist who works in many media, among them painting and photography. She is the illustrator of Korean for Beginners and My First Book of Korean Words.
BOOK TALK & CONFERENCE TITLESOnly What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
$26.00
Author & Editors: Inada, Lawson, William Hohri, Patricia Wakida Publisher: Heyday Books: 2000 Binding: Paperback Condition: New ISBN: 9781890771300 Abolition. Feminism. Now.
$16.95
Title: Abolition. Feminism. Now. Authors: Beth E Richie, Angela Y Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R Meiners Publisher: Haymarket Books Publish Date: January 18, 2022 Pages: 250 Type: Paperback ISBN: 9781642592580 Condition: New We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
$19.95
Editors: Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, Terisa Siagatonu Contributors:, Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-KayTrask Publisher: Haymarket: 2024 Format: Paperback: New ISBN: 9798888900871 DESCRIPTION A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" in today's world. In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and through the contested terrain of AAPI identity. Too often, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans are squeezed into the same story. The poets gathered here, and the lineages they represent, exceed this sameness. May this anthology uplift complexities and incite transformation and joy. Contributors include Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-Kay Trask, and many more writers, both established and emerging. Biographical Note: Franny Choi is the author of three poetry collections: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2022), Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Lily/Rosenberg Fellowship, Princeton's Holmes National Poetry Prize, and the Elgin Award, Franny is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge. They are at work on an essay collection about Asian robot women, forthcoming from Ecco. Bao Phi has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry. He has two collections of poems, both published by Coffee House Press, Sông I Sing and Thousand Star Hotel, the latter of which was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award, named by NPR as one of the best books of 2017, and was chosen as 2017's best poetry book of the year by San Francisco State's Poetry Center. Noʻu Revilla (she / her / ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Born and raised with the Līlīlehua rain of Waiehu on the island of Maui, she currently lives and loves with the Līlīlehua rain of Pālolo on Oʻahu. Her debut book Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions 2022) won the 2021 National Poetry Series. Her writing has been featured in Poetry, Lit Hub, ANMLY, Beloit, Poetry Northwest, and the Library of Congress. Her work has also been adapted for theatrical productions in Aotearoa as well as art exhibitions for the Honolulu Museum of Art and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a lifetime "slyly / reproductive" student of Haunani-Kay Trask and teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her presence in the poetry world as a queer Samoan woman and activist has granted her opportunities to perform and speak in places ranging from the White House (during the Obama administration) to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. A Kundiman Fellow and 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree, her work has been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry, CNN, NBCNews, NPR, Huffington Post, KQED, Everyday Feminism, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Upworthy. To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95
$24.95
Viet Thanh Nguyen Harvard University/ Belknap Press: April 8, 2025 Hardcover: New 9780674298170 AUTOGRAPHED SIGNATURE PLATE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans.The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing? Over the course of six captivating and moving chapters, Nguyen explores the idea of being an outsider through lenses that are, by turns, literary, historical, political, and familial. Each piece moves between writers who influenced Nguyen's craft and weaves in the haunting story of his late mother's mental illness. Nguyen unfolds the novels and nonfiction of Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams, and Maxine Hong Kingston, until aesthetic theories give way to pressing concerns raised by war and politics. What is a writer's responsibility in a time of violence? Should we celebrate fiction that gives voice to the voiceless--or do we confront the forces that render millions voiceless in the first place? What are the burdens and pleasures of the "minor" writer in any society? Unsatisfied with the modest inclusion accorded to "model minorities" such as Asian Americans, Nguyen sets the agenda for a more radical and disquieting solidarity with those whose lives have been devastated by imperialism and forever wars. Contributor Bio: Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer and of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Nguyen is Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the first Asian American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Born in Vietnam, Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee with his parents and grew up in San Jose, CA, where his family opened the city's second Vietnamese grocery store. He lives in Pasadena, CA. Say Her Name
$18.99
Zetta Elliott Illustrator: Loveis Wise Little Brown: 2020 Hardcover: New 9781368045247 Young Readers: 13-17 years old From award-winning author Zetta Elliott comes a stirring and powerful poetry collection that reveals the beauty, danger, and magic found at the intersection of race and gender. Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley. This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond-and act. Biographical Note: Zetta Elliott is an award-winning author, scholar, and activist. Born in Canada, she moved to the US in 1994 to pursue her PhD in American Studies at NYU. She taught Black Studies at the college level for close to a decade and has worked with urban youth for thirty years. Her poetry has been published in New Daughters of Africa We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices the Cave Canem anthology The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South Check the Rhyme: an Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees and Coloring Book: an Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers. She is the author of over thirty books for young readers and currently lives in West Philadelphia. Visit zettaelliott.com to learn more. Loveis Wise is a Freelance Illustrator and Designer from Washington D.C. Her work can be found in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed. She currently lives in Philadelphia. Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
$39.00
$32.95
Akemi Johnson New Press: 2019 Hardcover: New 9781620973318 A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there. At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades-with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases-a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex-U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire. Contributor Bio: Johnson, Akemi Akemi Johnson is a journalist and writer who has contributed to NPR's All Things Considered and Code Switch. She has written about Okinawa for The Nation, Roads & Kingdoms, Off Assignment, and Kyoto Journal. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Johnson was a 2008-2009 Fulbright scholar in Okinawa. A JAMP Conference Title (6/21/2025) Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
$30.00
Eric Muller University of North Carolina: 2023 Hardcover: New 9781469673974 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, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat. At each of these camps the government places a white lawyer with contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners and keep the place running. Within that job description are a vast array of tasks, and an enormous amount of discretion they can use for good or for ill. They fight to protect the property the prisoners were forced to leave behind; they help the prisoners with their wills and taxes; and they interrogate them about their loyalties, sometimes driving them to tears. Most of these lawyers think of themselves as trying to do good in a bad system, and yet each ends up harming the prisoners more than helping them, complicit in a system that strips people of their freedoms and sometimes endangers their lives. In Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Eric L. Muller brings to vivid life the stories of three of these men, illuminating a shameful episode of American history through imaginative narrative deeply grounded in archival evidence. As we look through the lawyers' sometimes-clear and sometimes-clouded eyes, what emerges is a powerful look at the day-by-day, brick-by-brick perpetration of racial injustice--not just by the system itself, but by the men struggling to do good within it. Contributor Bio: Muller, Eric L Eric L. Muller is the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. A JAMP Conference Title (6/21/2025) Tribunal Rising
$22.00
Tribunal Rising Editors: Judith Talaugon, Angela Marino Eastwind Books: 2025 Paperback: New 9781961562110 Tribunal Rising commemorates the 1992 International Tribunal movement in the city of San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery. In 1990, "[a]t the culmination of the Special International Tribunal on the Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the US, the American Indian Movement extended a call to national liberation movements and anti-imperialist allies, united by a shared vision of justice and equality. This vision emerged from a deep-seated commitment to human dignity and the elimination of age-old practices that perpetuate hatred and inflict both psychological and physical harm." This statement formed the cornerstone for the Counter-Quincentennial Celebration and the activities that put the US Federal Government on trial for its role in perpetuating the legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery and its consequent crimes against humanity. PART ONE TRIBUNAL RISING Introduction. Judith Talaugon and Angela Marino The Tribunal as Anti-Imperialist Action. Shaka Shakur Dismantling the Legacy of Columbus: The Origins of the International Tribunal and the Counter-Quincentennial Movement Statement of the 1992 Tribunal Movement An Interview with Comrade Judy Talaugon with Seth Donnelly International Tribunals for Self-Determination, 1990-1993. L. Alejandro Molina PART TWO ART, ACTIVISM, AND ARCHIVES PART THREE TRIBUNAL FRAMEWORKS CRITIQUE AND CREATE Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual
$49.95
Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual Author: Nubar Hovsepian Forward: Rashid Khalidi American University in Cairo Press: 2025 Hardcover: New 9781649031761 Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete's temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which transformed his thinking and led him to forge ties with political groups and like-minded scholars. In this intimate intellectual biography, by a close friend and confidant, Nubar Hovsepian offers fascinating insight into the evolution of Said's political thought. Through analysis of Said's seminal works and the debates surrounding them, he traces the influence of Foucault on Said, and how Said eventually diverged from this influence to arrive at a more pronounced understanding of agency, resistance, and liberation. Hovsepian charts both Said's engagement with the Palestinian national movement and his exchanges with a host of intellectuals over Palestine, arguing that Said's interventions have succeeded in changing the parameters of the discourse in the humanities, and among younger Jews searching for political affiliation. Table of Contents: Preface: My Special Relationship with Edward Said--Why that matters Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Edward Said as Oppositional Intellectual Chapter 2. Orientalism and its Afterlives Chapter 3. Imperialism, Culture, and the Colonial Present Chapter 4. Palestine: Inclusion Without Domination Chapter 5. Arafat's Man Turns Oppositional (1998-2003) Chapter 6. "The Last Jewish Intellectual" List of Abbreviations Selected Reference List Biographical Note: Nubar Hovsepian (Author) is associate professor emeritus of political science at Chapman University in Orange, California. He is the author of Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity, and he edited and contributed to The War on Lebanon. Hovsepian has devoted enormous time to the Israel/Palestine conflict, and served, from 1982 to 1984, as political affairs officer for the United Nations Conference on the Question of Palestine. Rashid Khalidi (Foreword by) is Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 (2020). A Palestinian and Arab Studies Program, UC Berkeley selection. American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism
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American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism Scott Kurashige UC Press: 2026 Paperback: New 9780520424777 This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-Asian racism integral to the outbreak of white supremacist, misogynist, and colonial violence across 175 years of U.S. history. Written in the radical spirit of Howard Zinn, American Peril represents the culmination of thirty-five years of study and activism by award-winning scholar Scott Kurashige. From the lynching of Asian immigrants during the exclusion era to the U.S. military's slaughter of Asian civilians, the book connects domestic and global events that have been erased from the official record. Going beyond victimhood, it traces the rise of Asian American community protest and activism in response to the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin and other overlooked tragedies. While many have worked to legislate and prosecute hate crimes, Kurashige argues that hope lies in grassroots activism for multiracial solidarity. Table of Contents: Part I How America Erased the Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism (1850s-1970s) 1 - The Violence of Exclusion 2 - The Violence of Empire 3 - From Mass Incarceration to Mass Murder 4 - How Asian Women Become Targets of Violence 5 - The Violence Beyond Vietnam Part II The Murder of Vincent Chin Remade Asian American Identity and Politics (1980s-Present) 6 - Martyr in the Motor City 7 - White Grievance and the Rise of the Counterrevolution 8 - Naming and Confronting Hate Crimes 9 - When the Police Cause More Harm 10 - Building Community in the Face of Violence Biographical Note: Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and coauthor, with Grace Lee Boggs, of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. Questions 27 & 28
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Questions 27 & 28 Contributor: Yamashita, Karen Tei (Author) Graywolf: 2026 Hardcover: New 9781644453810 Taking pre-orders for April 28, 2026, release date. In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they were required to answer the so-called loyalty questionnaire. Question 27 asked the inmates--who had been imprisoned without cause by the US military--whether they were willing to serve in combat for the US military. Question 28 asked them--many of whom American citizens who had never visited Japan--to renounce allegiance to the Japanese emperor. Answering these questions caused volatile divisions within the camps, tore families and friends apart, and had lasting repercussions in the decades postwar. Questions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century, their children who came of age during war and incarceration, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb, she gives voice to laborers, artists, scholars, informants, and activists who, over three generations, defined an immigrant community-- Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (1ST ed.)
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (1ST ed.) Contributor(s): Burns, Jennifer (Author) Oxford: 2011 Paperback 9780199832484 ISSI Conference: Women on the Right in U.S. History (2/28/2026) Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden. Biographical Note: Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. A nationally recognized authority on Rand and conservative thought, she has discussed her work on The Daily Show and Book TV and has been interviewed on numerous radio programs. Table of Contents: Introduction Part I. The Education of Ayn Rand, 1905-1943 Ch. 1. From Russia to Roosevelt Ch. 2. Individualists of the World, Unite! Ch. 3. A New Credo of Freedom Part II. From Novelist to Philosopher, 1944-1957 Ch. 4. The Real Root of Evil Ch. 5. A Round Universe Part III. Who Is John Galt? 1957-1968 Ch. 6. Big Sister is Watching You Ch. 7. Radicals for Capitalism Ch. 8. Love is Exception Making Part IV. Legacies Ch. 9. It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand Epilogue Ayn Rand in American Memory Notes Essay on Sources Bibliography NEW & NOTEWORTHY |
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Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
$29.95
Editors: Hokulani K Aikau, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez
ISBN: 9781478006497
Publisher: Duke University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: November 08, 2019
Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination--a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military occupation, tourism, food insecurity, high costs of living, and climate change. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai'i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai'i's culture and complex history. The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawai'i.
Biographical Note:
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press.
Hōkūlani K. Aikau is Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i.
Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (Third Edition)
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Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers (Third Edition)
Editors: Shawn Wong, Frank Chin, Jeffrey Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada
Forward: Tara Fickle
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2019
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780295746487
"In the eyes of white America, "Aiiieeeee!" was the racist cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions-it signified and perpetuated Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, obedient, self-hating, undesirable, and one dimensional. With this anthology, first published in 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong outlined the history of Asian American literature and boldly drew the boundaries for what was truly Asian American and what was white puppetry. Showcasing fourteen uncompromising works from authors such as Carlos Bulosan and John Okada, the editors introduced readers to a variety of daring voices. Forty-five years later, the groundbreaking anthology remains a vital collection that still sparks controversy. In the seventies, it helped to establish Asian American literature as a serious and distinct literary tradition, and today, the editors' forceful voices still reverberate in contemporary discussions about American literary traditions. Now back in print with a new foreword by literary scholar Tara Fickle, this third edition of the book is an essential anthology that demonstrates how Asian Americans fought for-and seized-their place in the American literary canon"--
Biographical Note:
Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong are the editors of Aiiieeeee! and The Big Aiiieeeee! As members of the Combined Asian Resources Project (CARP), they were instrumental in rediscovering many previously underappreciated works, including America Is in the Heart, No-No Boy, Nisei Daughter, and other classics.
Tara Fickle is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon.
They Called Us Enemy
$19.99
George Takei
Top Shelf: 2019
Paperback: New
9781603094504
Graphic Novel: Ages 12-17 years old.
A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.
George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.
Biographical Note:
George Takei is known around the world for his founding role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise, in the acclaimed television series Star Trek. But Takei's story goes where few stories have gone before. From a childhood spent with his family wrongfully imprisoned in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, to becoming one of the country's leading figures in the fight for social justice, LGBTQ rights, and marriage equality, Mashable named Takei the #1 most-influential person on Facebook, with 10.4 million likes and 2.8 million followers on Twitter.
Justin Eisinger is co-author of the New York Times Best Selling graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's story of childhood internment. During a career of more than a dozen years immersed in graphic storytelling, a fateful encounter with March author and Civil Rights pioneer Congressman John Lewis inspired Eisinger to turn his experience to bringing engaging non-fiction stories to readers. Born in Akron, Ohio, Eisinger lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and two dogs, and in his spare time publishes North America's only inline skating magazine.
Steven Scott has worked regularly in comics since publishing his debut book in 2010, most notably as a publicist. His writing has appeared in publications by Archie Comics, Arcana Studios, and Heavy Metal magazine. As a blogger/columnist he has written for the pop culture sites Forces of Geek, Great Scott Comics, and PopMatters.
Harmony Becker is an artist and illustrator. She is the creator of the comics Himawari Share, Love Potion, and Anemone and Catharus. She is a member of a multicultural family and has spent time living in South Korea and Japan. Her work often deals with the theme of the language barrier and how it shapes people and their relationships.
Rockin' the Boat: Flashbacks of the 1970s Asian Movement
$35.00
Author: Mary Uyematsu Kao
Publisher: Eastwind Books: 2025; 2nd Edition
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9798218580285
A co-publication of Mary Uyematsu Kao
and Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Description
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Asian & Asian American Studies. ROCKIN' THE BOAT is a photographic journey into the Asian A*merican Movement from 1969 to 1974 by photojournalist Mary Uyematsu Kao. Never-before seen photographs help tell the story of the beginnings of Asian America from immigrant demonstrations in Chinatowns to Japanese American youth and multigenerational community activism in California and New York.
Contributors
Tomie Arai
Harvey & Bea Dong
Sherry Hirota
Miya Iwataki
Kenwood Jung
Russell C. Leong
Sandy Maeshiro
Vivian Matsushige
Misono Iwata Miller
Nobuko Miyamoto
Marlene Murakami
Wendy Nagatani
Scott Nagatani
James Okazaki
Elsie (Uyematsu) Osajima
Elaine Takahashi
Rex Takahashi
Lillian Tamoria
Author
Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, Mary Uyematsu Kao attended UCLA during the struggle to establish Asian American Studies on campus. Kao worked for 30 years at AASC before retiring in 2018 and she is known for her graphic design work for AASC Press publications, especially Amerasia Journal. Recognized for her role as an activist as well as a photographer documenting Asian American community events in southern California and beyond. https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/author/kao-mary/
We Are Not Free (Paperback)
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Title: We Are Not Free (Paperback)
Author: Traci Chee
Publisher: Clarion Books
Year: 2022
Pages: 400
Type: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780358668107
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration
$21.99
Authors: Tamaki, Lauren (Illustrator) , Partridge, Elizabeth
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2022
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781452165103
Advocate A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
$24.99
Eddie Ahn
Ten Speed: 2024
Hardcover: New
9781984862495
Description
A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family’s expectations.
Born in Texas to Korean immigrants, Eddie grew up working at his family’s store with the weighty expectations that their sacrifices would be paid off when he achieved the “American Dream.” Years later after moving to San Francisco and earning a coveted law degree, he then does the unthinkable: he rejects a lucrative legal career to enter the nonprofit world.
In carving his own path, Eddie defies his family’s notions of economic success, igniting a struggle between family expectations, professional goals, and dreams of community.
Eddie Ahn has been an environmental justice attorney and nonprofit worker for fifteen years. While working as the executive director of Brightline Defense, a San Francisco-based environmental justice nonprofit, he was inducted into the State of California's Clean Energy Hall of Fame for his work in equity and clean energy. In addition to his nonprofit work, he has served as president of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment as well as a commissioner on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Bay Conservation and Development Commission. He is a self-taught artist who has been recognized as a Cartoonist-in-Residence by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.
Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
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$31.00
Author: William Gee Wong
Publisher: Temple: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781439924877
Nothing Like Freedom: Poems
$22.00
Author: Nellie Wong
Publisher: HongHongLookLook: 2024
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9798991400800
DESCRIPTION
"To dream in oceans of stories, listening to echoes from rituals, ancient and new."Poet Nellie Wong celebrates her ninetieth birthday with a specially curated book of poetry, exploring themes of family, art, activism and aging. Marking her 50th anniversary as a published poet, Nothing Like Freedom is Nellie Wong's fifth collection of poetry, following Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2012), Stolen Moments (1997), Death of Long Steam Lady (1986), and Dreams of Harrison Railroad Park (1977).
"As she marks her 90th birthday, the poet and activist Nellie Wong has given us a gift: a new collection of poems that bridges the decades of her remarkable career, with work that spans the 1970s to the present. In Nothing Like Freedom, Wong shares with us a lifetime of memories."
- TIMOTHY YU, Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"These poems are vivid postcards that bring you right there as if standing over Nellie's shoulder as she writes/remembers/relives. They are moving slices of life that we get to partake of and in, voyeurs sopping up all the minute, richly, savoring details."
- OPAL PALMER ADISA, Author of "The Storyteller's Return"
"For the last fifty years, Nellie Wong's poetry has been sounding clarion calls of truth and represents an essential voice in American literature."
- KAZIM ALI, Author of "The Voice of Sheila Chandra"
"These poems are the work of a steady hand, so many wonderful lines that take you to unexpected places. I will leave them for you to discover, this collection is a treasure."
- KIM SHUCK, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita; Author of "Pick a Garnet to Sleep In"
AUTHOR
Wong was born in Oakland, California to immigrant parents. Her father had immigrated to Oakland in 1912. Wong is a Chinese American poet, feminist, and socialist who has organized and participated in activist groups working to create better conditions for women, workers, and minorities.
We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
$19.95
Editors: Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, Terisa Siagatonu
Contributors:, Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-KayTrask
Publisher: Haymarket: 2024
Format: Paperback: New
ISBN: 9798888900871
DESCRIPTION
A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" in today's world.
In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and through the contested terrain of AAPI identity. Too often, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans are squeezed into the same story. The poets gathered here, and the lineages they represent, exceed this sameness. May this anthology uplift complexities and incite transformation and joy.
Contributors include Marilyn Chin, Joshua Nguyen, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-Kay Trask, and many more writers, both established and emerging.
Biographical Note:
Franny Choi is the author of three poetry collections: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2022), Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Lily/Rosenberg Fellowship, Princeton's Holmes National Poetry Prize, and the Elgin Award, Franny is Faculty in Literature at Bennington College and the founder of Brew & Forge. They are at work on an essay collection about Asian robot women, forthcoming from Ecco.
Bao Phi has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry. He has two collections of poems, both published by Coffee House Press, Sông I Sing and Thousand Star Hotel, the latter of which was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award, named by NPR as one of the best books of 2017, and was chosen as 2017's best poetry book of the year by San Francisco State's Poetry Center.
Noʻu Revilla (she / her / ʻo ia) is an ʻŌiwi poet and educator. Born and raised with the Līlīlehua rain of Waiehu on the island of Maui, she currently lives and loves with the Līlīlehua rain of Pālolo on Oʻahu. Her debut book Ask the Brindled (Milkweed Editions 2022) won the 2021 National Poetry Series. Her writing has been featured in Poetry, Lit Hub, ANMLY, Beloit, Poetry Northwest, and the Library of Congress. Her work has also been adapted for theatrical productions in Aotearoa as well as art exhibitions for the Honolulu Museum of Art and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a lifetime "slyly / reproductive" student of Haunani-Kay Trask and teaches creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her presence in the poetry world as a queer Samoan woman and activist has granted her opportunities to perform and speak in places ranging from the White House (during the Obama administration) to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. A Kundiman Fellow and 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree, her work has been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry, CNN, NBCNews, NPR, Huffington Post, KQED, Everyday Feminism, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Upworthy.
For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook
$19.95
Edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and Michael Yellow Bird
School for Advanced Research Press: 2005
Paperback: New
9781930618633
Recognizing an urgent need for Indigenous liberation strategies, Indigenous intellectuals met to create a book with hands-on suggestions and activities to enable Indigenous communities to decolonize themselves. The authors begin with the belief that Indigenous Peoples have the power, strength, and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation. These scholars and writers demystify the language of colonization and decolonization to help Indigenous communities identify useful concepts, terms, and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination. This handbook covers a wide range of topics, including Indigenous governance, education, language, oral tradition, repatriation, images and stereotypes, and truth-telling. It aims to facilitate critical thinking while offering recommendations for fostering community discussions and plans for meaningful community action.
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
$35.00
$30.00
Author: Luo, Michael
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Hardcover pages 560
9780385548571
AUTHOR SIGNED BOOK PLATE AVAILABLE
April 30, 2025. Book Talk at Politics & Prose Bookstore on YouTube.
Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan--Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race.
In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country's history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals.
At the book's heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country's first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as "strangers in the land." Only in 1965 did America's gates swing open to people like Luo's parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the "stranger" label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a New Yorker writer's style and sweep, Strangers in the Land is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
Biographical Note:
MICHAEL LUO is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics, religion, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times, as a metro reporter, national correspondent, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists.