Asian American Studies Books


The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.) Best Price: $7.44 After reading this book, I was hungry for more Umrigar; she's an amazing storyteller! This...	The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food Best Price: $13.48 Overall a good read. Rather than a continuous narrative the book is broken up into sections...	The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars Best Price: $12.47 `The Eves of Heaven` is an "auto-biography" by Thong Van Pham. In fact it is written...	Woman Warrior Best Price: $13.00 I feel that Kingston's story was very imformative about the chinese culture and their way of...	The Concubine's Children Best Price: $7.44 Received my order quickly, the book was is the advertised condition and I loved the book.



Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Immigrant Heritage of America Series) Best Price: $16.19 Not a casual read. Chan describes well over a hundred years of Asians emigrating to and growing...	The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Culture Best Price: $8.86 This is a fundamental book if you have to deal with japanese people, but even if you don't....	Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Best Price: $3.92 If americans keep on pestering me, telling me im a foreigner, ill probably blow a gasket and...	Part Asian, 100% Hapa Best Price: $7.98 I'm half Japanese and half Euro (German, Swede, Scottish) and I sure wish this book had been...	Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps Best Price: $5.95 I agree completely with Cindy Lee's July 12 review of this book. I am also a sansei (3rd...



Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (P.S.) Best Price: $4.72 This is an outstanding book. Loung Ung is an excellent writer. I was educated by her first book:...	Heritage of Chinese Civilization, The (2nd Edition) Best Price: $34.66 For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A clear and...	Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family Best Price: $7.00 I was very interested in finding a book that wasn't just dry history. I wasn't born in this time...	The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism Best Price: $16.29 In this pathbreaking book sociologists Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin examine, for the first time...	Snakeskin Shamisen Best Price: $6.78 The other three reviews have done a good job of summarizing the plot in this book. I would just...

China Boy Best Price: $6.75 Gus Lee's 'China Boy' was on my school's book club list this year. It was the first book I read...	Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People Best Price: $6.50 I know that this was a memoir, but at one chapter, the title is definately misleading, and many...	Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans Best Price: $12.81 ...and thank goodness! The efforts to expel by violence and exclude by law the Chinese from...	Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology Best Price: $23.99 View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction . "A valuable collection of essays...	With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans (Interact Series) Best Price: $3.98 The title of this book is deceptive in that once you read the inside cover, you discover that it...

Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 Best Price: $13.99 No immigrant population has ever been treated as shabbily and violently as the Chinese, who...	The Chinese in America: A Narrative History Best Price: $2.49 The Chinese in America "Chinese workers were prevented from immigrating to America by...	Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition Best Price: $13.00 Great book. To those who say its communist, I ask several questions: -Its from good ol' UC...	Major Problems In Asian American History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) Best Price: $20.00 This collection, designed to be the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian American...	Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA Best Price: $21.89 Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States,...

Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) Best Price: $13.50 This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which...	Encountering the Chinese: A Guide for Americans (The Interact Series) Best Price: $15.50 The book is good and is full of factual info but its quickly becoming outdated when dealing with...	Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America Best Price: $10.95 This is a well thought out, organized and very important historical document/autobiography.	Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 Best Price: $20.65 For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary...	Hawaii Reader In Traditional Chinese Culture Best Price: $29.49 It's some very nice translations of original Chinese texts with good intros to set the stage and...

Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture Best Price: $20.00 Robert G. Lee eloquently and effectively illustrates how the construct of race in America...	Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (Critical American Studies) Best Price: $19.95 Diane Fujino accurately captures the strife of social injustices perpetrated by a nation that...	Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians Best Price: $1.99 Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling is a great guide on advancing and succeeding in the corporate...	Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America Best Price: $21.45 Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays...	The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide Best Price: $15.29 ?Well-organized, well-written, and engaging. I know of no other work that provides such an...

Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (The Interact Series) Best Price: $29.77 A useful book but he could give us much more about the group activities there such as the...	Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images Best Price: $13.25 Screaming Monkeys enacts one of the most challenging, yet culturally rewarding, subversions of...	Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends Best Price: $10.03 I'm hapa and I got this for my little sister who is 13. She really really likes it. There's...	Cultural Compass (Asian American History & Cultu) Best Price: $26.00 I happened upon this book by accident and am glad I did. There are some good chapters on...	The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene Best Price: $21.53 This is an excellent book to read for a critical, careful, and nuanced look at race and...

Secondhand World Best Price: $4.50 This gorgeously written debut novel is comprised of brief chapters written with beautiful...	Bad Girls of Japan Best Price: $26.95 This is an excellent review ofd contemporary girl culture that is vital to comprehending what is...	The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority (3rd Edition) Best Price: $47.65 This book examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the...	Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Best Price: $20.00 This book is ground-breaking in its effort to discuss racial identity, changing demographics,...	Chinese in Boston, 1870-1965 (Images of America: Massachusetts) Best Price: $12.32 It gives a good account of the Chinese imigrants that settled in Boston early on. The pictorial...

Hmong in Minnesota (People of Minnesota) Best Price: $6.00 Hmong in Minnesota offers a description of Hmong culture in Minnesota and a brief history of the...	Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America Best Price: $18.68 To read Azuma's Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America is...	Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader Best Price: $27.00 Although there have been a number of readers published in the growing field of Asian American...	San Francisco's Chinatown (Images of America) Best Price: $12.52 Having reviewed the Mid-West cousin book "Chinese in Chicago" last year, I enjoyed the...	China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism (Asian Voices) Best Price: $20.00 (with apologies to WS, Twelfth Night II:5) This is a wonderful book - a testament, really, to...

More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership And Faith Best Price: $8.98 I think that this kind of a dialog is so important, especially in the light of recent events. ...	Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices Best Price: $14.00 I ordered this book from Amazon months ago as a non-Asian who had questions about the experience...	Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment Best Price: $22.87 While Hayashi is critical of the evacuation saying "despite the obvious presence of...	Latinoam?rica: presente y pasado (2nd Edition) Best Price: $35.85 This second edition of Fox's book is even better than the first. Fox is a master storyteller...	Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present Best Price: $16.45 Described by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and, more recently, as...

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Best Price: $17.16 An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday...	Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families And Their Passage from India to America Best Price: $14.90 I enjoyed this book so much I read it straight thru in one sitting. All 3 portraits had their...	The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient Best Price: $1.45 This is probably the most truthful book yet; the truth hurts and attacks the heart. its no...	American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora (Qualitative Studies in Psychology) Best Price: $17.16 Finally a book that deals with race in the Indian immigrant community. As a first generation...

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