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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Signed: 'Yours for a genuine brotherhood.' A survey of discrimination in the health field in Los Angeles, with a foreword by leading . . . .laymen, ministers, educators, businessmen, trade unionists and employers
Hollywood: Southern California Chapter of the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, [1950]. 39p., staplebound booklet, errata slip stapled in, covers toned. The Council's members included Charlotta Bass, Stephen Frichtman, members of the medical community and others. The survey covered Blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Jews and women. More
Cat.No: 36902
"Simpson / Mazzoli II" - Nuevos ataques a los derechos de inmigrantes
Oakland: Bay Area Committee Against the Simpson / Mazzoli Bill; etc. 1983. Six-panel brochure opposing new legislation as a reprise of the 1982 Simpson / Mazzoli bill, which had called on employers to attest to employee immigration status and made it illegal to knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants. More
Cat.No: 246096
Singing your own song; the women, youth, children, and friends of Glide Memorial Church
San Francisco: the Church, 1995. 40p., illus. with photos, poetry by Janice Mirikitani, Maya Angelou, and other celebrity poets, cover art and book design by Nancy Hom, 9x10 inches, wraps. Back cover is irregularly sun-faded, else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. On the Church and its youth programs, with writings..... More
Cat.No: 93338
Sister to Sister / S2S: Newsletter of the Women of Color Resource Center; Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 1994
Oakland: Women of Color Resource Center, 1994. 7p., self-wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, lightly worn, creased from being folded in half for mailing else very good condition. Articles on the upcoming UN 4th World Conference of Women, the Latina Feminist Resaerch Working Group, a review of "Our..... More
Cat.No: 252704
Sounds celebrating resistance. Issue 3
Sacramento, CA: the newspaper, 1997. [20p.], tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold. "Killing trees in the service of music and politics." Includes an interview with Fred Ho. More
Cat.No: 248822
The state of Asian Pacific America: a public policy report. Policy issues to the year 2020
Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute; University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. xix, 318 p., softcover, new, still in plastic wrap. More
Cat.No: 207076
A Study of Federal Immigration Policies and Practices in Southern California: a report prepared by the California Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Washington DC: US Commission on Civli Rights, 1980. Magazine. ix, 61p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, footnotes, charts and figures, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 203022
Summer Vacation
San Gabriel, CA: the zine, 2012. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches. Zine put together by members of the band Summer Vacation. Seems to be written in the first person by singer Mark Chen, and includes lyrics to their songs. More
Cat.No: 188471
Symposium: minority rights; California Law Review, volume 63, number 3, May 1975
Berkeley, CA: School of Law of the University of California, Berkeley, 1975. 596-844p., wraps mildly shelf worn, vol. 63, no. 3 of the California Law Review containing articles mainly on Chicano legal rights including UC Berkeley economist Paul S.Taylor's "Mexican migration and the 160-acre water limitation" regarding the fight for..... More
Cat.No: 153622
T. H. S., The Alert, 1942 [Turlock High School yearbook]
Turlock CA: for the high school by Harder's P[rinting] S[ervice?], 1942. Unpaginated, middle-school yearbook format with less information than is usual (no indices, no joke page) but pleasant chapter dividers, 11x8.5 inch embossed red cloth casing lettered white. Edgeworn with a little fray, front hinge is partially split and very..... More
Cat.No: 230833
T.A.: technical assistance newsletter; August/September 1992: Organizational Life Cycles
Washington DC: National Minority AIDS Council, 1992. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, information, services, resources, events, news, lightly-used newsletter. More
Cat.No: 257510
Tea Leaves: An Asian American Arts Magazine [eleven issues]
Berkeley: Tea Leaves, 1987-1994. Eleven issues of the publication, issued twice each year; from Spring 1987 to the 1993-94 double issue no. 12; apparently the missing issue would have been Fall 1990. Most are 8.5x11 inches in staplebound wraps; three of the later issues are 5.5x8.5 inches. The Spring 1988..... More
Cat.No: 220422
Tenderloin Times [two issues]
San Francisco: Hospitality House, 1991, 1993. Two isues of the tabloid format newspaper from the city's grittiest neighborhood, vol. 15 no. 3 and vol. 17 no. 6. Each issue includes sections in the languages of Southeast Asian communities in the Tenderloin, specifically Vietnamese, Cambodian, and in the earlier issue, Lao..... More
Cat.No: 250391
Texas long grain: photographs by the Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1982. 59p., very good in wraps, signed and personally inscribed by many of the photographers next to their work, including Leland Wong (with small sketch), Jim Dong, Jerry Jew, Peter Man, Norman Yee and Zand Gee. Black and white photographs reflecting various aspects of..... More
Cat.No: 184599
Texas long grain: photographs by the Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1982. 59p., wraps, 9 x 8.5 inches, chiefly illus., very good condition signed and inscribed by featured photographer Janet Yoshii on the front blank. Black and white photographs reflecting various aspects of the Asian-American experience. More
Cat.No: 251257
These are the Yaos
[San Francisco]: the zine, 2015. [6p.], staplebound zine, 2.75x4.25 inches, very good. Booklet with black and white photocopies of photos of an Asian American family. "All these pictures found at Goodwill, 2015." More
Cat.No: 217957
Thòi báo gà. No. 14/15 (March and April, 1971)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1971. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, creased from mailing, postal marks, foxing. Translations of opinion pieces that originally appeared in Vietnamese-language publications, opposing US military policy. More
Cat.No: 249305
Thòi báo gà. Special issue (May 1972)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1972. 12p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, rubberstamp of the US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. This issue devoted to coverage of a visit by Vietnamese students to Carbondale, IL to oppose the AID Viet Center. Several pages of introductory text followed..... More
Cat.No: 227048
Time is winding up; poems from Galileo High School 1989
San Francisco: Galileo High School, 1989. Paperback. unpaginated, 5.5x8 inches, very good in trade pictorial wraps. The "bright" high; predictably, the poets are promising and sophisticated. Almost one in three of these poets bears an Asian surname. Facets 13. More
Cat.No: 149041
Tosan An Ch'ang-ho, gulloboll sidae K'orian Amerik'an ui yokhal model / Dosan, bridging the Pacific
Seoul: Tosan An Ch'ang-ho Kinyomgwan, 2008. 242p., paperback, very good. Mostly in Korean, with some English sections. On Korean independence leader and Korean-American pioneer An Ch'angho (1878– 1938). More
Cat.No: 223966
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay & bisexual South Asians vol. 11, no. 1. January, 1996; DECADEnce: a tenth anniversary special
Palo Alto: Trikon, 1996. Magazine. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 164543
Trikone: Lesbian & Gay South Asians [brochure]
San Jose: Trikone, n.d. Six-panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, very good, introducing the group founded in 1986. Calls it "The oldest South Asian queer organization in the world." More
Cat.No: 186677
The twenty five year's history of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church (1972-1997)
Bellflower CA: Published by Editorial Committee of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church, 1997. 305p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with numerous vignette photoportraits in color of parishioners; some period interiors in b&w and color site photography; first issue cloth boards titled silver in glossy marigold dj, jacket spine panel slightly faded, a very..... More
Cat.No: 175089
[Two brochures for Maum Meditation]
n.p. Maum Meditation, 2008, 2009. Two staplebound booklets, both with the main title "Cleansing Mind and Body," with leaflets laid in announcing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 223339
Unity is Strength / Tuanjie jiu shi liliang / Support GCA Workers / Zhichi Zhong Xi gongren [pinback button] 團結就是力量；支持中西工人
[East Bay]: [1974?]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, bilingual text and artwork depicting seamstresses with a sewing machine, orange background. Very good; manufactured by East Bay pinmaker Robert Rush (though not identified as such on the pin). GCA was the Great Chinese American Sewing Company, known in Cantonese as Jung Sai..... More
Cat.No: 204511
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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