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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Breaking silence, an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets
Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, 1983. xv, 295p., first edition, worn wraps. More about Breaking silence, an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets
Cat.No: 15453
The San Francisco Phoenix: a magazine of news, the arts and informed dissipation; vol. 1, #16, for period ending April 519 1973; Inside the Chinese Gans of SF
San Francisco: The Phoenix, 1973. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, ads, services, resources, news, events, opinion, very good on newsprint. Laid in is a catalog for Orpheus Free University. Cover story, "Inside the Chinese gangs of SF." Also features on Dr. John, Jackie Kennedy nude photos, and more. More about The San Francisco Phoenix: a magazine of news, the arts and informed dissipation; vol. 1, #16,...
Cat.No: 208242
Buddhist Service Book
San Francisco: the Bureau, 1967. 236p., hardcover, no dj, second edition. Revised Buddhist liturgy and hymnal for Japanese-Americans. More about Buddhist Service Book
Cat.No: 126197
Young Buddhist companion
San Francisco: the Commission, 1957. 217p., hardcover, no dj. Hinges weakening. Revised Buddhist liturgy and hymnal for Japanese-Americans; the preface states that it has been designed to fill the needs of the second-generation Nisei. More about Young Buddhist companion
Cat.No: 126195
Young Buddhist companion
San Francisco: the Commission, 1948. 217p., hardcover, lightly worn pebbled boards. Revised Buddhist liturgy and hymnal for Japanese-Americans; the preface states that it has been designed to fill the needs of the second-generation Nisei. More about Young Buddhist companion
Cat.No: 194613
House of waiting
New York: Global City Press, 1995. 245p., very good first edition of author's debut novel in original pictorial wraps. Paperback original from a small NYC press. Based on an actual event, the story of a marriage between a Jewish New Yorker and an Indo-Caribbean man. More about House of waiting
Cat.No: 114456
If you want to know what we are; a Carlos Bulosan reader, originally edited by E. San Juna, Jr., with an introduction by Leigh Bristol-Kagan
Minneapolis: West End Press, 1983. 80p., slender paperback, private ownership stamp on title page, otherwise very good. More about If you want to know what we are; a Carlos Bulosan reader, originally edited by E. San Juna, Jr.,...
Cat.No: 19126
The stone of Kannon
Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1979. ix, 438p., first edition in dj. First in a series of novels about the first Japanese to work Hawaii's sugarcane plantations by the island's foremost writer of historical fiction. More about The stone of Kannon
Cat.No: 55128
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Changgun ui ttaldul [General's daughters]
Seoul: Chihyene, 1999. 388p., very good hardcover in dj, text in Korean; presentation inscription in Korean on front endpaper. The author ran an import / export business in Pleasantville, NY. More about Changgun ui ttaldul [General's daughters
Cat.No: 177454
the dilemma of American immigration; beyond the golden door
New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1984. Paperback. ix, 214p., foreword, preface, epilogue, references, index, very good second printing trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More about the dilemma of American immigration; beyond the golden door
Cat.No: 47924
Californians of Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino ancestry. Population, education, employment, income
San Francisco: Department of Industrial Relations, 1965. 52p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps, very good. More about Californians of Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino ancestry. Population, education, employment, income
Cat.No: 13132
Seventh report un-American activities in California, 1953. Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities to the 1953 Regular California Legislature
Sacramento: The Senate, 1953. 296p., creased wraps with a couple of spots. Covers the CP & education, front organizations and the Gadar Party in California (the US branch originally established by Indians living in California to agitate for India's independence). More about Seventh report un-American activities in California, 1953. Report of the Senate Fact-Finding...
Cat.No: 58630
California Couples; Recognizing Diversity and Strengthening Fundamental Relationships: A Report Submitted to the Joint Select Task Force, couples workgroup preliminary report
Sacramento: California Legislature, 1988. 59p, clear plastic wraps with comb binding, report deals with policy on families and marriage in general with particular attention to domestic partners and partnership and recommendations on issues such as state reporting, education of minors, premarital counselling and agreements, ceremonies, common law marriage, marriage of... More about California Couples; Recognizing Diversity and Strengthening Fundamental Relationships: A Report...
Cat.No: 156654
Women and minorities in California public postsecondary education: their employment, classification, and compensation, 1977-1981
Sacramento: California Postsecondary Education Commission, 1983. iv, 187p., stapled with blue sheets front and back. Has sections on the UC system, the Cal State system, and community colleges. More about Women and minorities in California public postsecondary education: their employment,...
Cat.No: 121052
A handbook for teaching Vietnamese-speaking students
Los Angeles: California State Uniiversity, 1983. xii+95p., 7x9 inches, very good ex-library reprint in original pictorial wraps. More about A handbook for teaching Vietnamese-speaking students
Cat.No: 105353
Second Report Un-American Activities in California, 1945. Report of the Joint Fact-Finding Committee to the Fifty-Sixth California Legislature.
Sacramento: The Senate, 1945. 236p., paperback, rubberstamp of Senator Tenney on the cover, upper right corner of the front cover is chipped. Sections on Mankind United, Japanese problems in California, Communism, Writers Congress at U.C.L.A., The Zoot-Suit Riots in Southern California. More about Second Report Un-American Activities in California, 1945. Report of the Joint Fact-Finding...
Cat.No: 10543
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[bumper sticker] Let teachers teach, doctors heal, and police protect.... "NO" on 1897 [contact information follows]
no city, California: Californians United as above, 1994. 4x11 inch da-glo orange "Crack 'n Peel Plus Removable" adhesive but allegedly bumper-friendly banner, printed black, a very good exemplar. 187 was an anti-immigrant measure passed by voters then voided by the courts. FPPC ID # 930-421. More about bumper sticker] Let teachers teach, doctors heal, and police protect.... "NO" on 1897...
Cat.No: 173183
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[bumper sticker] Vote no on 187 who will pay? our children will! [contact information follows]
no city, California: Californians United as above, 1994. 4x11 inch da-glo orange "Crack 'n Peel Plus Removable" adhesive but allegedly bumper-friendly banner, printed black, a very good exemplar. 187 was an anti-immigrant measure passed by voters then voided by the courts. FPPC ID # 930-421. More about bumper sticker] Vote no on 187 who will pay? our children will! [contact information follows
Cat.No: 171884
Sheng ming zhi ge
[San Jose]: privately printed; Evergreen Printing, 2000. 8.5x11 inches in wraps, 27 chapters each paginated individually; very good. Text in Chinese. Autobiography of the Chinese-American immigrant in his 90s, who had served in the armed forces in Taiwan and spent much of his later time in San Jose. More about Sheng ming zhi ge
Cat.No: 190559
Monkey bridge
New York: Viking, 1997. Hardcover. 260p., signed by the author on title page, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Novel of the Vietnamese immigrant experience. More about Monkey bridge
Cat.No: 35460
Mainstreaming minority women's studies
New York: National Council for Research on Women, 1989. 26p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled gray wraps. Biographical sketches of various participating projects with contact info provided. More about Mainstreaming minority women's studies
Cat.No: 190452
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Sacred spaces: the fourteenth annual Expressions International Festival [brochure] October 8 thru October 31 1992
New York: Caribbean Cultural Center, 1992. Ten panel brochure folded to 6x11 inches, cnference schedule, films, concerts, poetry readings, exhibitions, essay by Marta Moreno Vega, ticket info, staple holes, mailing label, otherwise very good in colorful designed covers. More about Sacred spaces: the fourteenth annual Expressions International Festival [brochure] October 8 thru...
Cat.No: 203810
Relationship of admission test scores to writing performance of native and nonnative speakers of English
Princeton: Educational Testing Service, 1985. Paperback. xii, 127p. + 6p. appendices, 8.5x11 inches, very good paperback report in wraps with black cloth-tape spine. GRE Board Research report GREB 83-2R. Covers Arabic, Chinese and Spanish speaking students. More about Relationship of admission test scores to writing performance of native and nonnative speakers of...
Cat.No: 99262
In Your Face. Volume One, Issue One, 1990
Berkeley, CA: The Center for Racial Education, 1990. Paperback. x,115p, very good paperback. Poems, illustrations, and stories by men of color. Noted as a "Bi-Annual publication from the ASUC Center for Racial Education." More about In Your Face. Volume One, Issue One, 1990
Cat.No: 198073
The social adjustment of Filipinos in the United States [cover title: The Filipino Social Adjustment in the United States]
San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1972. ix, 124 p., 8.5x11 inches, blue wraps faded along bottom, bookstore label inside front cover, otherwise very good. Reprint of the 1940 dissertation. More about The social adjustment of Filipinos in the United States [cover title: The Filipino Social...
Cat.No: 208141
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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