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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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
2010 nian geng yin zi lian nong min li
San Bruno, CA: Purple Lotus Society, [2009]. 136p., slender paperback, very good. Booklet containing a traditional Chinese calendar for the year and short essays on contemporary life from a Buddhist perspective, distributed by the Purple Lotus Temple. More
Cat.No: 242402
35th Anniversary: Cherry Blossom Festival
San Francisco: the Festival, 2002. 42p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, light edgewear, very good. Program booklet with letters from officials, full roster of events, ads, etc. More
Cat.No: 233856
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
Affirmative action and discrimination: Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher...
San Francisco: APAHE, 1996. 156p., paperback, very good. Keynote address by Dana Takagi. More
Cat.No: 260194
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
Amerasia. A Review of America and the Far East. Volume...
New York: Amerasia, 1937. pp. 433-484, staplebound wraps, edgeworn, cover splitting at top of spine; a decent reading copy only. Includes articles on Japanese aggression against China, discussion of the effects of a boycott against Japanese goods, revolt in Manchuria, and more. More
Cat.No: 259134
America -Love it enough to change it
Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution, [1984]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, contact info for the San Francisco branch of NOAR rubberstamped at the end. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. Beginning with a portion of Langston Hughes' poem "Make America America Again," laments the results of..... More
Cat.No: 260317
American Red Cross celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Youth...
San Francisco: Red Cross, Golden Gate Chapter, 1992. [15p.], booklet bound in rustic method with stick and twine; very good. Bilingual text. A celebration of the program linking newcomer youth with elders in the community. More
Cat.No: 264701
Asia in the San Francisco Bay Area: a cultural travel...
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 Pacific Lifeline: publication of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach...
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...
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 -...
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/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
Asians in America: 1990 census. Classification by state
San Francisco: Asian Week, 1991. 64p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. More
Cat.No: 196093
Asians in Struggle
Brooklyn: Forward Motion, 1994. Newspaper. 16p., tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold, paper evenly toned, otherwise very good. Issued as a stand-alone supplement to Forward Motion magazine, founded by the Proletarian Unity League later the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. More
Cat.No: 227601
Bagui qiao shi / Overseas Chinese History of Bagui 八桂侨史...
Nanning: Guangxi huaqiao lishi xuehui / Bagui qiao shi zazhishe 广西华侨历史学会, 1987-2008. Thirty-two issues of the journal, including all issues from 1987 to 1992 bound in hardcover volumes, later issues loose; the loose issues present include the following: 1993: 1, 2, 4; 1994: 1-4; 1995: 1-4; 1996: 1-4; 1997: 2..... More
Cat.No: 184203
Bao wei Diaoyutai lie yu / Protect Tiao-yu-tai Islands! [printed...
n.p. [1971]. Gummed but unused envelope, very good, with slogan printed in red in both Chinese and English. The Diaoyu Tai / Tiaoyu Tai / Senkaku islands are a disputed territory in the sea between Taiwan and Japan, claimed by both China and Japan. In 1971, when the US was..... More
Cat.No: 242653
Berkeley Public Library's Annual Lesbian & Gay Author Reading: a....
Berkeley: Friends of the Library, no date. Single 11x8.5 inch handbill in landscape format on lavender stock with photos of the three authors and event information, lightly-stained otherwise good. More
Cat.No: 229999
A Better Chance to Learn: bilingual bicultural education
Washington: United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1975. 254p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, conclusion, appendices, references, footnotes, very good in trade paper pictorial wraps. Clearinghouse Publication #1. More
Cat.No: 40198
Blue and Gold vol. 74 (1947)
Berkeley: University of California, 1947. 511p., very good hardcover yearbook, 12.2x9 inches, profusely illustrated. This is the personal copy of Him Mark Lai, a pioneer in the field of Chinese American studies; front cover has his name in gold lettering at lower right corner, and his red rubberstamp appears internally..... More
Cat.No: 216185
Branches: a Pacific and Asian American journal of theology and...
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1979. 36p., very good in staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. More
Cat.No: 204801
Breaking into immigration law: a two-part seminar on the nuts...
San Francisco: Bay Area Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, 1982. Thick unpaginated packet, 8.5x11 inches, containing materials for the seminar and many pages of photocopied government forms for reference. Rear cover (a plain yellow sheet) has come loose but is present. More
Cat.No: 245333
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains...
Hom, Nancy; Stephanie Lowe
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