Asian America

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form by Caroline H. Yang

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form

Asian America

Caroline H. Yang

296 pages • hardcover

nonfiction classics history literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 by Leslie T. Hatamiya

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Asian America

Leslie T. Hatamiya

260 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction history politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America by Bakirathi Mani

Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America

Asian America

Bakirathi Mani

328 pages • digital • 2012

nonfiction art literary race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn

Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction

Asian America

Stephen Hong Sohn

336 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction lgbtqia+ literary race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent by David Leiwei Li

Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent

Asian America

David Leiwei Li

280 pages • digital • 1998

nonfiction literary informative reflective medium-paced
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity by Daniel Kim

Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity

Asian America

Daniel Kim

320 pages • hardcover • 2005

nonfiction gender literary race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Tritia Toyota

Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

Asian America

Tritia Toyota

256 pages • paperback • 2009

nonfiction politics race
Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community by William Gow

Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community

Asian America

William Gow

274 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction history race
The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature by Christopher Lee

The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

Asian America

Christopher Lee

208 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history literary informative reflective medium-paced
Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry by Dorothy J. Wang

Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry

Asian America

Dorothy J. Wang

416 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction literary poetry race challenging informative reflective slow-paced