11 Best history books like From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

By: Paula Yoo

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers…

If you liked the history plot in From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Erika Lee's The Making of Asian America: A History book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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2. Apple: Skin to the Core

By: Eric Gansworth

3.78

Format: 339 pages, None

Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of a… read more

Similar categories in Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert

4. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Brandy Colbert

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

5. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
Cover of Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang

6. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

By: Jeff Yang

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Cultural critic Jeff Yang, blogger Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man, and Wong Fu Productions’ Philip Wang… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Yang's Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you go to an “Asian American and Pacific Islander"

-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

"American culture tends to see Asians as weak and in need of white people to come save us. That’s especially true in pop culture about the Vietnam War. The narrative is all about what Americans went t…"

-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

"The project was already in development before I joined the division. I was at Touchstone Pictures in live action, and I had heard that they were doing Mulan, it was picking up heat, and they were int…"

-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

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7. Punching Bag

By: Rex Ogle

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Punching Bag book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • audiobook
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8. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • audiobook
Cover of Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

9. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

10. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

By: Robert W. Fieseler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more

Similar categories in Robert W. Fieseler's Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more

Similar categories in Gail Jarrow's American Murderer book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

12. Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

By: Kekla Magoon

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as milit… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • audiobook
"The FBI nicknamed the program COINTELPRO, as a shorthand for "counterintelligence program." COINTELPRO originated in the 1950s, to prevent socialist movements from developing in the United States, an…"

-Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

Cover of Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away by Candy J. Cooper

13. Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away

By: Candy J. Cooper

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscar… read more

Similar categories in Candy J. Cooper's Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger

14. America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

By: Ariel Aberg-Riger

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Red… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Aberg-Riger's America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America by Rachel Louise Martin

15. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America

By: Rachel Louise Martin

4.22

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Martin's A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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16. Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir)

By: Colin Kaepernick

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Colin Change the Game is an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up from … read more

Similar categories in Colin Kaepernick's Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game (Graphic Novel Memoir) book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

17. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

By: Paula Yoo

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers… read more

Similar categories in Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Kneel

By: Candace Buford

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The system is rigged. For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their sma… read more

Similar categories in Candace Buford's Kneel book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow

19. Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

By: Gail Jarrow

4.20

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

This title blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination an… read more

Similar categories in Gail Jarrow's Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
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20. Everything We Never Had

By: Randy Ribay

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally c… read more

Similar categories in Randy Ribay's Everything We Never Had book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

21. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Paula Yoo's From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  • audiobook

15 must-read audiobook books like From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

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Erika Lee , Erika Lee

4.33

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Eric Gansworth

3.78

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Katherine Marsh

4.50

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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Brandy Colbert

4.25

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

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Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

Steve Sheinkin

4.49

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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith

4.46

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