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Asian American Experiences

These books, both nonfiction and fiction, provide a lens into the experiences of Asian Americans and our country's long history of anti-Asian racism.

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28 items

  • Book, 2015New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 973.0495 LEE
  • Minor Feelings

    An Asian American Reckoning

    Hong, Cathy Park,
    Book, 2020New York : One World, [2020] — 305.4895 HONG
  • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

    the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

    Yoo, Paula,
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, [2021] — TEEN 305.895 YOO
  • Book, 2018New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2018. — 810.8089 GO
  • Not Quite Not White

    Losing and Finding Race in America

    Sen, Sharmila,
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018] — 305.8009 SEN
  • Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century

    Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-generation Americans From China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos

    Book, 2008New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008. — 301.451 A832
  • The Next American Revolution

    Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century

    Boggs, Grace Lee
    Book, 2012Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2012. — 303.484 BOGGS
  • Yellow

    Race in America Beyond Black and White

    Wu, Frank H., 1967-
    Book, 2002New York : Basic Books, [2002] — 301.451 W959y
  • Book, 2014Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014. — FICTION OKADA
  • Asian American Dreams

    the Emergence of An American People

    Zia, Helen
    Book, 2000New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. — 301.451 Z64a
  • Big Little Man

    in Search of My Asian Self

    Tizon, Alex
    Book, 2014Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. — 305.895 TIZON
  • The Best We Could Do

    An Illustrated Memoir

    Bui, Thi,
    Book, 2017New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2017. — 973.0495 BUI
  • Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — FICTION YANG
  • When Half Is Whole

    Multiethnic Asian American Identities

    Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen,
    Book, 2012Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012. — 305.895 MURPHY-S
  • Book, 2015New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — FICTION ALVAR