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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and this guide celebrates the richness and diversity, the history and cultures of the more than 22.6 million Asian/Pacific Americans.
This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.
The inhabitants of Seattle's International District, a unique neighborhood where Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans have come together as a political and social force, tell the story of the Asian immigrants who came to America, but seldom appeared in the pages of our history books.
Follows Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro on a nine-month tour throughout the U.S. and Japan. Home video footage, family photos, and interviews with family and friends also document Jake's rise to international fame.
Asian Americans are the best-educated and highest-income ethnic group in the United States. They are often referred to as the “model minority,” suggesting that all Asians are successful in school and in life. But Southeast Asian Americans have some of the lowest high school completion rates in the nation.
"Explores the Japanese-American community on Puget Sound's Bainbridge Island. [The film] shows the cultural forces that enabled many of its members to return and rebuild their lives after exile and incarceration by their own government during World War II"--Container.
The story of a race displaced by outside influences and now on the verge of extinction is told in this award-winning documentary. Using archival photographs and seldom-seen tourism promotion film footage, this documentary reminds viewers how easy it is to sell Hawaii at the expense of its own indigenous people.
"Within hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i authorities arrested several hundred local Japanese on O'ahu, Maui, Hawai'i Island, and Kaua'i. There was no evidence of espionage or sabotage and no charges were ever filed against them. ...very little is known about the Hawai'i internees and their unique experiences during World War II."--Container.
This film tells the fascinating story of a pioneering American entertainer Jack Soo, an Oakland native who became the first Asian American to be cast in the lead role in a regular television series Valentine’s Day (1963), and later starred in the popular comedy show Barney Miller (1975-1978).
"An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to politics, and covers key historical and cultural developments, enabling students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century." -Publisher
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. University of Washington Press, [2018]
"Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines, and Guam at the end of the twentieth century, the text views women as historical subjects actively negotiating complex hierarchies of power."--Google Books viewed Dec. 16, 2021.
The first full portrait of a single assembly center--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II.
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's culture and complex history.
"Organized into sections of oral testimony, essays, charges, and findings, this 800-page anthology presents the most extensive, diverse, and accessible arguments for native Hawaiian sovereignty."--Jacket.
How does skin color impact the lives of Asian American women? In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays, edited by Nikki Khanna.
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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by 
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Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center by 
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