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Born in Seattle

Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro

Born in Seattle

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Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro

Enduring Conviction

Lorraine K. Bannai

Enduring Conviction

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Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came to realize that it was more than just a personal choice; it was a matter of basic human rights. After refusing to leave for incarceration when ordered, Korematsu was eventually arrested and convicted of a...

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Lorraine K. Bannai

Asians in Colorado

William Wei W.S.

Asians in Colorado

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Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Wei reconstructs what life was like for the early Chinese and Japanese pioneers,...

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William Wei W.S.

Growing Up Brown

Peter M. Jamero, Sr.

Growing Up Brown

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"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference – my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a �campo� boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. As a campo boy, I also began...

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Peter M. Jamero, Sr.

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence

Linda Tamura

Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence

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Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to...

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Linda Tamura

Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories

Russell Charles Leong

Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories

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Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans.In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization � and the...

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Russell Charles Leong

Imprisoned Apart

Louis Fiset

Imprisoned Apart

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�Please don�t cry,� wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war. He was imprisoned in Fort Missoula, Montana, and she was incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in southwestern Idaho. Their separation would continue for more than two years.Imprisoned Apart is the poignant story of a young teacher and his bride who came to Seattle from Japan in 1919 so that he might study English language and...

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Louis Fiset

Paper Bullets

Kip Fulbeck

Paper Bullets

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Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of highcomedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely linked stories, essays, and confessions. By turns sensitive and forceful, passionate and callous, Fulbeck confronts the politics of race, sex, and Asian American...

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Kip Fulbeck

A Principled Stand

Gordon K. Hirabayashi

A Principled Stand

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In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand , Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and voluminous wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States , the Supreme Court case that in 1943 upheld and on appeal in 1987 vacated his conviction. For the first...

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Gordon K. Hirabayashi

Letters from the 442nd

Minoru Masuda

Letters from the 442nd

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Minoru Masuda

Altered Lives, Enduring Community

Marilyn Fernandez

Altered Lives, Enduring Community

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Marilyn Fernandez

Form and Transformation in Asian Am...

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Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

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Shopping at Giant Foods

Alfred Yee

Shopping at Giant Foods

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Alfred Yee

Judgment Without Trial

Tetsuden Kashima

Judgment Without Trial

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Tetsuden Kashima

Confinement and Ethnicity

Lord

Confinement and Ethnicity

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Lord

Cities of Others

Xiaojing Zhou

Cities of Others

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Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers – both celebrated and overlooked – depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal...

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Xiaojing Zhou

Storied Lives

Gary Y. Okihiro

Storied Lives

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Gary Y. Okihiro

From a Three-Cornered World

James Masao Mitsui

From a Three-Cornered World

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From a Three-Cornered World presents 60 poems by James Mitsui, 25 of them new. His poetry has, over two decades� time and three previous volumes, asserted a strong and significant voice within the growing tradition of Asian American literature.Mitsui�s poems contain a family history of immigration to the Pacific Northwest from Japan and the assimilation of American culture over three generations, including the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. His...

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James Masao Mitsui

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