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1) Asian American histories of the United States

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Choy, Catherine Ceniza

Series

ReVisioning History

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"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--

2) Asian Americans

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This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.

3) Corky Lee's Asian America: fifty years of photographic justice

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Lee, Corky

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"A posthumous collection of over 200 breathtaking photographs that document the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, through the lens of beloved photographer Corky Lee--the man who sought to change the world one photograph at a time Using his camera as his pen and sword, Corky Lee documented Asian American-Pacific Islander communities for fifty continuous years, breaking the stereotype of Asian Americans as docile,...

4) Days of infamy: how a century of bigotry led to Japanese American internment

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Goldstone, Lawrence

Series

Scholastic Focus

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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...

5) Driven out: the forgotten war against Chinese Americans

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Pfaelzer, Jean

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning

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6) The Eagles of Heart Mountain: a true story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War II America

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Pearson, Bradford

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A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp. Spring, 1942. The United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. They faced racism,...

7) Fighting to belong: Volume 1,Asian American, native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history from the 1700s through the 1800s

Author

Chu, Amy

Series

History of Asian Americans Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

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In this book, the first volume of a three-book series, our middle school protagonists Padmini, Sammy, Joe, and Tiana and their guide, Kenji, embark on an amazing journey through time to witness key events in AANHPI history. They witness the arrival of the "Manilamen" to the United States in the eighteenth century and fly through significant moments in the next 150 years. Fighting to Belong! helps new audiences young and old, AANHPI and non-AANHPI,...

8) From a whisper to a rallying cry: the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

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Yoo, Paula

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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...

9) Ghosts of Gold Mountain: the epic story of the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad

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Chang, Gordon H

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"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"-- "The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the...

10) Japanese American incarceration

Author

Loh-Hagan, Virginia

Series

Racial justice in America AAPI histories

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"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Japanese American Incarceration explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...

11) Made in Asian America: A History for Young People

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Lee, Erika

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From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American.

Asian American history is not made up of one single story. It's many. And it's a story that too often goes untold.

It begins centuries before

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12) The making of Asian America: a history

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Lee, Erika

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"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American...

13) Prisoner of wars: a Hmong fighter pilot's story of escaping death and confronting life

Author

Vang, Chia Youyee

Series

Asian American history and culture

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"An oral history biography of Pao Yang, one of several dozen Hmong fighter pilots secretly trained by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Recounts his capture, escape, and migration to the United States and challenges dominant paradigms of Asian American history and Southeast Asian refugees"--

14) Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

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Ishizuka, Karen L

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"The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity - and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as...

15) Smithsonian Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture in 101 objects

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"A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects from the Smithsonian collections"--

16) We are here: 30 inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have shaped the United States

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Hirahara, Naomi

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"We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history"--

17) What is yellow peril?

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Loh-Hagan, Virginia

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"Students will learn about yellow peril and discover how it endangers lives and leads to racially motivated hate crimes against Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in America. This series explores the issues specific to the AAPI community in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of the San Diego State University Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource...

18) When can we go back to America?: voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II

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Kamei, Susan H

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"An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--

19) The white devil's daughters: the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

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Siler, Julia Flynn

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"A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home,...