Asian American
This section includes literature by Asian American authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of Asian American political and cultural organizations. We stock many out-of-print Asian American immigrant publications in Asian languages.
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![She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains / reliving her past through holiday rituals / patiently waiting for her house in the suburbs. / Helplessly I watch the years roll by / on the horizon no houses in sight, just mountains made of brass and sweat [screen print poster]](http://www.bolerium.com/pictures/thumb/196947.jpg?v=1484087302)
14th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 96; program
San Francisco: NAATA, 1996. 56p., 8.25x10.75 inches, illustrated with photos, folding poster stapled-in, descriptions of films entered in the festival, very good in original wraps. More
Cat.No: 103214
40th annual Manzanar pilgrimage. Saturday, April 25, 2009. Commemorative program
Los Angeles: The Manzanar Committee, 2009. [20p.], very good staplebound brochure. Laid in is a leaflet celebrating the life of Mary Ichino, who had recently died. More
Cat.No: 216290
![8th annual San Francisco Fall Festival: Japan Center, Nihonmachi [brochure]](/pictures/medium/181489.jpg?v=1491768494)
8th annual San Francisco Fall Festival: Japan Center, Nihonmachi [brochure]
San Francisco: the Festival, 1977. Six-panel brochure folded from single sheet, 7.25x10.75 inches, event calendar, ads, Center floor-plan, very good. Program for the festival with ads from local businesses. More
Cat.No: 181489
AAJA: Newsletter of the Asian American Journalists Association. Spring 1994
San Francisco: Asian American Journalists Association, 1994. 20p., 8.5x11 inches, very good. Includes a tribute to Randy Shilts and a cover story about Ying Chan winning the Polk Award. More
Cat.No: 225798
Aion; vol. I, no. 2
San Francisco: Asian American Publications, 1971. 102p., 8.5x11 inches, covers somewhat foxed. Second issue of the radical Asian American journal, with contributions by Janice Mirikitani, Lawson Fusao Ineda, and many others. More
Cat.No: 126220
ALGA Newsletter: four issue broken run
San Francisco: Association of Lesbian and Gay Asians, 1984-1985. Newspaper. Four issues, of the folded tabloid newspaper, various pagination, articles, essays, news, photos, events. Issues: December 1984, January, April/May and June 1985. More
Cat.No: 198591
Amerasia journal, vol. 1, no. 4, February 1972
Los Angeles: UCLA Asian-American Studies Center, 1972. 76p., 8.5 x 5.5 inch wraps. Includes lead article on the Filipino Wedding in Waialua, Hawaii. More
Cat.No: 49485
Amerasia journal; index of volumes 1 - 13, 1971-1987
Los Angeles: UCLA Asian-American Studies Center, 1988. x, 22p., 8.5 x 5 inch wraps. More
Cat.No: 86671
Ang Katipunan special. Target: KDP
Oakland: Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), [1982]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, outlining US government spying against the KDP. Revised version of an article by Venny Villapando originally published in Ang Katipunan. More
Cat.No: 208282
Ang Katipunan: free victory issue. Vol. 12 no. 4 (March 5, 1986)
Oakland: Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), 1986. Special issue of the tabloid format newspaper, 11.5x17 inches, horizontal fold, evenly toned. Headlined "Free at last," celebrates the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. The most important radical leftist newspaper of the Filipino community in the US, with extensive coverage of domestic activism as... More
Cat.No: 208284
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Ang Katipunan: monthly newsmagazine of the Filipino Community [eight issues]
Oakland: Katipunan Publications, 1987-1991. Eight issues of the tabloid format newspaper, 11.5x15 inches, all with horizontal fold, toning, address labels. This was a continuation of the KDP's publication by the same name, but it began a new series (Vol. 1 no. 1) when it changed its ISSN in 1987. Issues... More
Cat.No: 207426
Ang Katipunan: newsmagazine of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) volume XIII, number 5, May 1987
Oakland: Ang Katipunan, 1987. 16p., 11.5x17 inches, folded tabloid newsprint, illustrated with photos, yellowed. Cover story on Aquino and vigilantes. More
Cat.No: 106119
Ang Katipunan: special AK supplement. Sept. 1979. A history of Filipino immigration to the US and current trends: a critical analysis
Oakland: Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), 1979. Four-panel brochure in tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, horizontal fold. More
Cat.No: 208283
Asia Diary / Yazhou ri ji
San Francisco: Asia Book Store; printed by the Kwong Chi Book Co. in Hong Kong, [1957]. Unpaginated hardcover, very good in red boards, undated but includes a 1958 calendar. Unused diary, with occasional small photos of sites in China, and other scattered content including ads for publications. Text in Chinese... More
Cat.No: 221187
Asia in the San Francisco Bay Area: a cultural travel guide
Emeryville: Asia Society; Avalon Travel, 2004. 303p., very good paperback. Overview of the area's immigrant communities. More
Cat.No: 217943
Asian American Booklet
n.p. Department of Public Social Services, Cultural Awareness Training Program, 1976. [16p.], staplebound 8.5x11 inch booklet, no exterior title, generic title and incomplete publication information inside front cover. Includes sections introducing Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Samoan immigrant communities. More
Cat.No: 217582
Asian American Review. Vol. 2 No. 1
Berkeley: Asian American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, 1975. 212p., illus., 8.5x11", wraps. Includes research articles, poetry, and discussions of Asian American Studies at U.C. Berkeley. Title has been handwritten on blank spine. More
Cat.No: 120991
Asian American Review. Vol. 2 No. 1
Berkeley: Asian American Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, 1975. 212p., illus., 8.5x11", wraps mildly worn and foxed with several ownership stamps of a San Francisco professor. Includes radical essays, research articles, poetry, and discussions of Asian American Studies at U.C. Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 186522
Asian Americans: a success story? in The journal of social issues, 1973, vol. 29, no. 2: Issue editors Stanley Sue and Harry H. L. Kitano
Ann Arbor: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1973. 218p., wraps. Entire issue on various topics of Asian American assimilation and functioning. More
Cat.No: 25659
Asian Pacific Lifeline: publication of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach: vol. 3, no. 6, March 1982
Los Angeles: USC Asian Pacific Student Outreach, 1982. 8p., tabloid newsprint folded, illustrated with photos and ads. Cover story on Dr. Thomas Noguchi, LA County Medical Examiner. East-West Players review. More
Cat.No: 100833
Asian Pacific Lifeline: publication of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach: vol. 3, no. 2, October 1981
Los Angeles: USC Asian Pacific Student Outreach, 1981. 8p., tabloid newsprint folded, illustrated with photos and ads. Cover story on Job Market in the 1980s. More
Cat.No: 100834
Asian traditions/modern expressions: Asian American artist and abstarction 1945 - 1970
New Brunswick: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1997. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with color plates, fine catalog of the exhibition in stapled pictorial wraps. Diana Kan, C. C. Wang, Tadashi Sato et al. More
Cat.No: 180569
Asian women
Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, University of California, 1975. 144p., 8.5x11 inches, third printing, wraps, profusely illustrated. Covers somewhat soiled with handling and small splash. Considers both Asian and Asian American women. More
Cat.No: 103338
Asian/Pacific Islander cultural strengths & stresses. Chinese in America
Oakland: Asian Community Mental Health Services; California Department of Mental Health, 1981. 10p., slender staplebound booklet, 11x8.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 218453
![Asian/Pacific Islander cultural strengths & stresses. [Set of three: Vietnamese in America, Samoans in America, Chinese in America]](/pictures/medium/191474.jpg?v=1525194664)
Asian/Pacific Islander cultural strengths & stresses. [Set of three: Vietnamese in America, Samoans in America, Chinese in America]
Oakland: Asian Community Mental Health Services; California Department of Mental Health, 1981. Three slender booklets, apparently all that were issued in the series; 11x8.5 inches, very good. On issues specific to each immigrant group. More
Cat.No: 191474
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains / reliving her past through holiday rituals / patiently waiting for her house in the suburbs. / Helplessly I watch the years roll by / on the horizon no houses in sight, just mountains made of brass and sweat [screen print poster]
Hom, Nancy; Stephanie Lowe
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