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Eastwind Summer Book Club: The Emperor of Gladness
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Save the Date Sept. 20th Saturday
Three groundbreaking authors, Beth Lew-Williams, Michael Luo, and Fae Myenne Ng, reveal the extensive stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude, deport, and deny their due process of law.
Join us to listen to the three authors bring to life the stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s. From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities, conducted raids in Chinese communities, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. --
In her new book, John Doe Chinaman, Beth Lew-Williams’ meticulous research uncovers 5,000 laws and ordinances in national, state and local governments aimed against the Chinese immigrants in America. These racial laws targeted every aspect of the lives of Chinese men and women.
In Strangers in the Land, Michael Luo provides light to the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. 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.
Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes, “exclusion and confession WERE, the two slamming doors of America”... “All his life, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’
Save the date Sept. 20 Saturday 2pm
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Recommended Reading
Stay True: A Memoir (AUTHOR SIGNED)
Author: Hua Hsu
Publisher: Knopf/Doubleday: 2023
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780593315200
AUTHOR SIGNED BOOK AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
DESCRIPTION
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.
Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Bianca Mabute-Louie
Publisher: Harper: 2025
Format: Hardcover: New
ISBN: 9780063277625
DESCRIPTION
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.
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, 2nd Ed.
Editors: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, & Judy Yung
Publisher: University of Washington: 2014
Format: Paper
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780295994079
Fighting to Belong!: (Vol 1) Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1700s Through the 1800s
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.
Fighting to Belong! (Vol 2): Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, 1900-1970
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.
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.
Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Photographs By Corky Lee
Forword by Hua Hsu
Edited by Chee Wang Ng and Mae Ngai
Publisher: Clarkson Porter
Release Date: April 9, 2024
Format: Hardcover: 320 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780593580127
A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time
Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
Author: William Gee Wong
Publisher: Temple: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781439924877
Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher: Grove Press
Date: October 3, 2023
Format: Hardcover: 400 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780802160508
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
Editors: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
Publisher: Penguin: 2024
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780143133285
DESCRIPTION
"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. A Penguin Classic This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization - all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action. The selections favor the pointed over the poignant, and the unknown over the familiar, with several new translations among previously unseen works that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in the archives, or languished unread in the Japanese language. The writings are presented chronologically so that readers can trace the continuum of events as the incarcerees experienced it. The contributors span incarcerees, their children born in or soon after the camps, and their descendants who reflect on the long-term consequences of mass incarceration for themselves and the nation. Many of the voices are those of protest. Some are those of accommodation. All are authentic. Together they form an epic narrative with a singular vision of America's past, one with disturbing resonances with the American present"
EDITORS
Frank Abe is co-author of the graphic novel We Hereby Refuse and the American Book Award-winning John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, and creator of the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution. Floyd Cheung is a professor of English at Smith College. He has edited several books including the Penguin Classics edition of H.T. Tsiang's The Hanging on Union Square, and is co-editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, and John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.
CONTENTS
Preface by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung
THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATIONPART I: BEFORE CAMP
Introduction to Part I
Arrival and Community
1. Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, "Arrival in San Francisco" and "The Turlock Incident"
2. Ayako Ishigaki (as Haru Matsui), "Whither Immigrants"
3. Toshio Mori, "Lil' Yokohama"
Arrest and Alien Internment
4. Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota, "Those Airplanes Outside Aren't Ours"
5. Kamekichi Tokita, "1941 (Showa 16)"
6. John Okada (as Anonymous), "I Must Be Strong"
7. Bunyu Fujimura, "Arrest"
8. Fujiwo Tanisaki, "They Took Our Father Too"
9. Otokichi Ozaki (as Muin Ozaki), "Fort Sill Internment Camp"
10. Yasutaro Soga (as Keiho Soga), "Sand Island and Santa Fe Internment Camps"
11. Iwao Matsushita, "I Can't Bear to Be Stigmatized as 'Potentially Dangerous' "
Cooperation and Refusal EXECUTIVE ORDER
12. James Omura, "Has the Gestapo Come to America?"
13. Mike Masaoka, "Decision to Cooperate" 50 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY
14. Gordon K. Hirabayashi, "Why I Refuse to Register for Evacuation"
15. Charles Kikuchi, "Kicked Out of Berkeley"PART II: THE CAMPS
Introduction to Part II
Fairgrounds and Racetracks
16. Monica Sone, "Life in Camp Harmony"
17. Mitsuye Yamada, "Curfew"
18. Portland Senryū Poets, "Resolution and Readiness, Confusion and Doubt"
19. Yoshio Abe, "Lover's Lane"
Deserts and Swamps RECOMMENDATIONS TO MILTON EISENHOWER, DIRECTOR, WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
20. Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, "Fry Bread"
21. Toyo Suyemoto, "Barracks Home"
22. Authorship uncertain, "That Damned Fence"
23. Kiyo Sato, "I Am a Prisoner in a Concentration Camp in My Own Country"
24. Masae Wada, "Gila Relocation Center Song"
25. Cherry Tanaka, "The Unpleasantness of the Year"
26. Hiroshi Nakamura, "Alice Hasn't Come Home"
27. Joe Kurihara, "The Martyrs of Camp Manzanar"
28. Iwao Kawakami, "The Paper"
29. Nao Akutsu, "Send Back the Father of These American Citizens"
Registration and Segregation STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES CITIZEN OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY
30. Topaz Resident Committee, "We Respectfully Ask for Immediate Answers"
31. Kentaro Takatsui, "The Factual Causes and Reasons Why I Refused to Register"
32. Sada Murayama, "Loyalty"
33. Mitsuye Yamada, "Cincinnati"
CONFIDENTIAL STATEMENT TO DILLON MYER, DIRECTOR, WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY
34. Kazuo Kawai (as Ryōji Hiei), "This Is Like Going to Prison"
35. Noboru Shirai, "The Army Takes Control"
36. Hyakuissei Okamoto, "Several brethren arrested after martial law was declared at Tule Lake in November 1943"
37. Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, "Brother's Imprisonment"
38. Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye, "Hunger Strike"
39. Bunichi Kagawa , " Geta"
Volunteers and the Draft
40. Minoru Masuda, "A Lonely and Personal Decision"
41. Tamotsu Shibutani, "The Activation of Company K"
42. Toshio Mori, "She Is My Mother, and I Am the Son Who Volunteered"
43. Jōji Nozawa, "Father of Volunteers"
44. Fuyo Tanagi and the Mothers Society of Minidoka, "Petition to President Roosevelt"
45. Yoshito Kuromiya, "Fair Play Committee"
46. Frank Emi and the Fair Play Committee, "We Hereby Refuse . . . In Order to Contest the Issue"
47. Eddie Yanagisako and Kenroku Sumida, "Song of Cheyenne"
Resegregation and Renunciation AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR LOSS OF UNITED STATES NATIONALITY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
48. Noboru Shirai, " Wa Shoi Wa Shoi, the Emergence of the 'Headband' Group"
49. Motomu Akashi, "Badges of Honor"
50. Joe Kurihara, "Japs They Are, Citizens or Not"
51. Hiroshi Kashiwagi, "Starting from Loomis . . . Again"PART III: AFTER CAMP
Introduction to Part III
Resettlement and Reconnection
52. James Takeda (as Bean Takeda), "The Year Is 2045"
53. David Mura, "Internment Camp Psychology"
54. Shizue Iwatsuki, "Returning Home"
55. Toyo Suyemoto, "Topaz, Utah"
56. Janice Mirikitani, "We, the Dangerous"
57. Amy Uyematsu, "December 7 Always Brings Christmas Early"
58. Brian Komei Dempster, "Your Hands Guide Me Through Trains"
59. Christine Kitano, "1942: In Response to Executive Order 9066, My Father, Sixteen, Takes"
Redress
60. Shosuke Sasaki and the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee, "An Appeal for Action to Obtain Redress for the World War II Evacuation and Imprisonment of Japanese Americans" 247 PERSONAL JUSTICE DENIED, PART 2: RECOMMENDATIONS
61. William Minoru Hohri, "The Complaint"
62. Jeanne Sakata, " Coram Nobis Press Conference" 260 LETTER FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
63. traci kato- iriyama, "No Redress"
Repeating History
64. Perry Miyake, "Evacuation, the Sequel"
65. Fred Korematsu, "Do We Really Need to Relearn the Lessons of Japanese American Internment?"
66. Brandon Shimoda, "We Have Been Here Before"
67. Brynn Saito, "Theses on the Philosophy of History"
68. Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki, "Never Again Is Now" 287
JAMP Conference Title (6/21/2025)
The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
Author: Satsuki Ina
Publisher: Heyday: 2024
Format: Hardcover: 291 pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781597146265
DESCRIPTION
The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family’s saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity. With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amidst one of the severest blows to American civil liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her family’s ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with galvanizing power.
AUTHOR
Satsuki Ina is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in community trauma. She helps victims of oppression to claim not only their voice but also their power to transform the systems that have oppressed them. Her activism has included cofounding Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites. Ina has produced two documentaries about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Children of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, Democracy Now! and the documentary And Then They Came for Us. A professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
JAMP Conference Title (6/21/25)
The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
Author: Kai Naima Williams
Publisher: Kapernick Publishing: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781960571007
Young Readers: Ages 5-8.
Description
Debut children's picture book author Kai Naima Williams -- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama -- intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism. From Yuri's incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of the people -- especially young people -- to bring about social change.
Through imaginative writing and vibrant illustrations by Anastasia Magloire Williams, THE BRIDGES YURI BUILT is sure to inspire young readers to embrace Yuri's unwavering belief that together we can build a bridge to a better world.
"The legacy I would like to leave is that people try to build bridges and not walls." -- Yuri Kochiyama
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
Author: Hannah Moushbeck
Illustrator: Reem Madou
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2023
Format: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781797202051
For children: 5 to 8.
DESCRIPTION
A father and his daughters may not be able to return home . . . but they can celebrate stories of their homeland!As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland--Palestine. Through their father's memories, the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of juice vendors beating rhythms with brass cups, the smell of argileh drifting through windows, and the sight of doves flapping their wings toward home. These daughters of the diaspora feel love for a place they have never been, a home they cannot visit. But, as their father's story comes to an end, they know that through his memories, they will always return.A Palestinian family celebrates the stories of their homeland in this moving autobiographical picture book debut by Hannah Moushabeck. With heartfelt illustrations by Reem Madooh, this story is a love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people that transcends borders.
AUTHOR
Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and marketer who was raised in a family of booksellers and publishers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.
ILLUSTRATOR
Reem Madooh is an illustrator from Kuwait with an MA in Children's Book Illustration. She is an avid picture book collector and loves narrative storytelling and incorporating a dreamlike atmosphere into her art. As a child, she enjoyed listening to stories of the old days from her parents and grandparents. She also loves za'atar and makes sure to have some every day. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Kuwait.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2ND ed.)
Author: Elan Pappe
Publisher: One World: 2007
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9781851685554
DESCRIPTION
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."
Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the Middle East.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?
2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State
3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact
4. Finalising a Master Plan
5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet
6. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948
7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June--September 1948
8. Completing the Job: October 1948--January 1949
9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces
10. The Memoricide of the Nakba
11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'
12. Fortress Israel Epilogue
Endnotes
Chronology
Maps and Tables
Bibliography
Index
AUTHOR
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel(Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
Filipino Children's Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales (Favorite Children's Stories)
Title: Filipino Children's Favorite Stories: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales (Favorite Children's Stories)
Reading Age: 5 - 10 years
Author: Liana Romulo
Illustrator: Joanne De Leon
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Year: March 3, 2020
Pages: 34 pages
Type: Hardcover
Condition: New
ISBN: 9780804850216
Dim Sum, Here We Come!
Title: Dim Sum, Here We Come!
Reading Age: 4 - 8 years
Author: Maple Lam
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: January 3, 2023
Pages: 40
Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062396983
Condition: New
AC·TIV·IST: A PERSONAL MEMOIR BY WARREN T. FURUTANI
Author: Warren T. Furutani
Publisher: Self Published: 2022
Type: Paperback: 272 Pages
Condition: New
ISBN: 9798218066130
DESCRIPTION
In his recently written memoir, “ac-tiv-ist, noun: a person who works to bring about political or social change”, Warren T. Furutani writes about his more than 50 years of being a student, community and political activist.
The book reflects his perspective from different times in his life and his personal evolution and growth. It covers his role in helping organize the Asian and Pacific Islander American social justice movement, his career in community service, education and politics and a perspective on current issues and lessons learned.
AUTHOR
Warren Furutani is a fourth-generation Japanese American and former politician. Before being elected to the California State Assembly, he served on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education and the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. As an assemblyman, Furutani sponsored legislation to organize graduation ceremonies for Japanese Americans who were evicted from their college campuses during the war. He also spearheaded legislation to make January 30 an official day for honoring Fred Korematsu .
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