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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![bumper sticker] Vote no on 187 who will pay? our children will! [contact information follows]....](/pictures/medium/171884.jpg?v=1525957856)
[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
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
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
Cat.No: 35460
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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
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
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
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
Cat.No: 208141
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[Three items from the Cayetano for Governor campaign]
Honolulu: Friends of Ben, 1994. Two brochures and a bumper sticker from the gubernatorial campaign of the first Filipino American to be elected governor of a state. More
Cat.No: 207055
The Real Moon of Poetry and other poems
New York: Fencebooks, 2002. 57p., trade-size frenchfold wraps. A very good copy. Celona is the daughter of "an American foreign service officer and his Vietnamese wife," per jacket flap, and "winner of the 2002 Alberta prize" --deservedly so. More
Cat.No: 121468
Elmustee - a growing island of hope
n.p. New Age Printers, 2000. 251p., paperback, inscribed by the author, "manuscript" label on title page, otherwise very good. Novel about a fictional utopian community in India, by a Pakistani-American writer. More
Cat.No: 242957
Istoria ni Bonipasyo: kasla gloria ti Hawai'i (Bonipasyo's story: Hawaii is like Paradise). A contemporary three-act play in English on the Filipino experience in Hawai'i [program booklet]
Honolulu: Center for Philippine Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991. 20p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Program for the play about Filipino immigrants on a sugar plantation, including synopsis and brief introductions to the performers. More
Cat.No: 207029
Occident: U.C. literary magazine, Fall 1950
[Berkeley]: Associated Students of the University of California, 1950. Paperback. 58p., 6x9 inches, very good UC Berkeley literary journal in white stapled pictorial wraps. Lawton wrote the short story upon which the film "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" is based. His son became a film director and producer. Billie..... More
Cat.No: 240411
Meiguo hua ren cang sang shi / A history of vicissitudes of Chinese Americans
n.p. Southwest Chinese Welfare Council, 2005. 150p., slender paperback, very good. Text in both Chinese and English. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 242196
The marvelous promises: the miracle of a Chinese Christian doctor. The true life story of modern faith in action through Dr. Chan and Promise, Inc.
New York: Grace Foundation, 1974. 456p., very good hardcover, lengthy personal inscription by the author on front endpaper, with his red seal (and red fingerprints from the seal ink, on the facing page). More
Cat.No: 212096
Pansy Lim Chan: a celebration of life
Oakland: Chapel of the Chimes, 2017. Four-panel brochure from Chan's funeral, with brief biography and program, including several performances by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Chan's son, Terrence Chan, was a founding member of the SFGMC. More
Cat.No: 236874
This bittersweet soil; the Chinese in Califronia agriculture, 1860-1910
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xxvi, 503p. including illus., paperback, rear cover has corner crease. More
Cat.No: 245747
Entry denied; exclusion and the Chinese community in America, 1882-1943
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xvii, 286 pages, very good paperback. Asian American History and Culture. More
Cat.No: 243734
Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xxvii, 299p., very good softcover, inscribed by the editor to Chinese American scholar Him Mark Lai "With the deepest respect for your pioneering work;" the Lai estate's donation stamp on title page. More
Cat.No: 191143
Income and status differences between white and minority Americans; a persistent inequality
Lewiston, NY: The Edward Mellen Press, 1990. Hardcover. iv, 370p., illustrated with graphs, figures and tables, very good first edition in original brown buckram cloth and gilt. Mellen Studies in Sociology Series, volume 3. The articles herein focus on Asian Americans and Hispanics in relation to Whites. More
Cat.No: 19122
Wo de qidao wen
Pickering, Ontario: Tin Tin Christian Materials Hut, 2003. 130p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. Chinese-Canadian Christian tract. More
Cat.No: 208842
The view from Zero Bridge; 2006 Philip Levine Prize for poetry selected by Corrine Clegg Hales
Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 2007. xi, 77p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Personal inscription signed by the poet and signed again on the title page, business card laid-in. Indian-American poet. More
Cat.No: 153051
The second highest world war: the Rama theater
San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2002. xiv, 237 pages, very good paperback; inscribed by author. Novel of WWII set in a remote Himalayan part of India. More
Cat.No: 242179
Racial discrimination in Canada: Asian minorities
San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973. ix, 80p., 8.5x11", wraps. More
Cat.No: 16044
What Matisse is after; poems and drawings by Diana Chang
New York: Contact II Publications, 1984. 41p., untitled card wraps pasted into printed rubricated dust jacket as issued; 8.2x6.9 inches, mild sunning and handling, good to very good copy inscribed and signed by Chang on the ffep. More
Cat.No: 175321
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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