Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
By: Yen Le Espiritu
4.41
Format: 264 pages, ebook
Body The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve…
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1. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
By: Ronald Takaki
4.17
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral test… read more
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- history
- school
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- history
4. The Making of Asian America: A History
By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more
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5. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- school
- academic
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
6. South of the Border, West of the Sun
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.86
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more
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"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
7. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
By: Lisa Lowe
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fu… read more
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8. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
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9. The Gangster We Are All Looking For
By: Lê Thi Diem Thúy
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of… read more
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10. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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11. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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12. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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14. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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15. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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16. Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
By: Yen Le Espiritu
4.41
Format: 264 pages, ebook
Body The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve… read more
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- academic
- nonfiction
17. Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
By: Kandice Chuh
4.24
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that … read more
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18. Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 5)
By: Aihwa Ong
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims a… read more
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19. Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France
By: Jean Beaman
4.09
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move
By: Rebecca Hamlin
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Today, the concept of "the refugee" as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws h… read more
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21. Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America (Nation of Nations, 23)
By: Helen Heran Jun
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and Afri… read more
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