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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An Eastern potpourri: selected gourmet recipes
[San Pablo, CA]: Asian Student Union of Contra Costa College, [197-]. Unpaginated booklet with black plastic comb binding, mildly worn. More
Cat.No: 193613
Echoes from Gold Mountain; an Asian American Journal [third issue]
no city [Long Beach]: Asian American Students Association, 1982. 112p., slender paperback, very good, errata slip laid in. More
Cat.No: 175628
Education and Culture Foundation
Monterey Park, CA: the Foundation, [200-]. 18p. in English, 18p. in Chinese, very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, many photos. On the charitable organization founded by Paul Szeto (Situ Chaozheng). More
Cat.No: 182096
Electronics workers on the move! [handbill]
San Jose, CA: Rucker Strike Support Committee, 1974. 8.5x11 inch leaflet, text only, printed both sides; very good. Cites the San Francisco Chinatown strike by workers at Lee Mah electronics and the strike at Ruckers Electronics in Concord, summarizing the developments so far, urging the reader to join their picket..... More
Cat.No: 251307
Electronics workers on the move! [handbill]
San Jose, CA: Rucker Strike Support Committee, 1974. 8.5x11 inch leaflet, text only, printed both sides; toned and creased. Cites the San Francisco Chinatown strike by workers at Lee Mah electronics and the strike at Ruckers Electronics in Concord, summarizing the developments so far, urging the reader to join their..... More
Cat.No: 251308
English-Japanese parallel: a Sunday service
Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1982. viii, 53 p., very good in staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 204829
Ethnic media; their influence on politics and participation, the 2010 Breaux Symposium
Baton Rouge: LSU Manship School of Mass Communication, 2010. 100p., very good in wraps. Multicultural symposium, with primarily Asian American participants. More
Cat.No: 163541
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco: Treganza Museum, 1994. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps; very good. With articles on blacks, Chinese Americans, Hmongs, Italians, and Asian immigrant workers in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16. More
Cat.No: 46784
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area (Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5)
San Francisco: Treganza Museum / SF State University, 1994-2006. Four issues of the journal, missing number 3; 8.5x11 inches, slender paperback format. Occasional rubberstamps of the Treganza Anthropology Museum, otherwise very good. With articles on immigrant workers and otehrs in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16, 19, 21..... More
Cat.No: 238366
Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area (Nos. 1-5)
San Francisco: Treganza Museum, SF State University, 1994-2006. Five issues of the journal, apparently all that were published; 8.5x11 inches, slender paperback format. Rubberstamps of the Treganza Anthropology Museum, otherwise very good. With articles on immigrant workers and others in the Bay Area. Treganza Anthropology Museum papers #16, 19, 20..... More
Cat.No: 238365
FANHS Forum: Journal of Filipino American National Historical Society. Vol. 1 no. 2 (July 1992)
Cincinnati: FANHS, 1992. 57p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. "Across the generations: an image-building profile of FANHS." More
Cat.No: 216689
Favorite island cookery. Book III
Honolulu: Honpa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 1973-79. xii, 296p., very good in spiral-bound wraps. More
Cat.No: 187926
Filipino American Arts Exposition and Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, present Teatro ng Tanan's production of PeregriNasyon: Is America in the heart? A play about the enduring spirit of Filipinos and their struggle for a place to call home [poster]
San Francisco: Filipino American Arts Exposition, [1994]. 18x24 inch poster for the play by Chris D. Millado, featuring a vintage photograph. Very good. More
Cat.No: 208184
Filipinos at work. 1990 calendar
Oakland: Filipinos for Affirmative Action, [1989]. Wall calendar with hole punched for hanging from a nail; black and white photos of Filipino-Americans in various work settings. 9.2x14 inches when folded shut. More
Cat.No: 207468
Fomen / Buddha Gate 2002
Lafayette, CA: Buddha Gate Monastery, 2002. 86p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches; numerous photos. Text mostly in Chinese. Introduction to the Buddhist temple and those who work there. More
Cat.No: 182081
Fong Fong Chinese Cookies [label for cookie tin]
San Francisco: Fong Fong Bakery, [196-?]. Approximately 15x5.5 inch pictorial label for cookies made at the Chinatown bakery and ice cream shop that opened in the 1930s. Style appears to be 1960s; phone number has letter prefix GA. More
Cat.No: 202862
The Foo Hsing Theatre
San Francisco: Great Star Theater, 1963. 22 pages in English, 32 pages in Chinese, staplebound program booklet for the performances of Chinese operas by a troupe from Taiwan in San Francisco's Chinatown. Includes black and white photos, synopses of the plays, an essay by K.K. Woo about Chinese opera, and..... More
Cat.No: 234724
Foreign medical graduates: a case of retributive justice
New York: Emergency Defense Committee for the FMGs, [1975-?]. 27p., wraps, with laid in slip, "State Department Interpretation" Defense of medical workers with degrees from the Philippines and other countries who were being pressured to leave the US. More
Cat.No: 124549
Foreign medical graduates: a case of retributive justice
New York: Emergency Defense Committee for the FMGs, [1975-?]. 27p., wraps, with laid in slip, "State Department Interpretation" Defense of medical workers with degrees from the Philippines and other countries who were being pressured to leave the US. More
Cat.No: 204943
[Four matchbooks from San Francisco Chinatown restaurants]
San Francisco: various, n.d. Four matchbooks from restaurants on Grant Avenue, all with phone numbers starting with YUkon, very good. Restaurants are Andy Wong's Chinese Sky Room, Lamps of China, Kan's, and Gong Gong. Might have to remove the actual matches before mailing for safety; a moot point if you..... More
Cat.No: 197605
Gagaku: the music and dances of the Japanese imperial household
San Francisco: Japan Society of San Francisco; Consulate General of Japan, with the cooperation of the Society for Asian Art and the San Francisco Ballet, 1959. [16p.], staplebound wraps, overwrap of Japanese Haruki paper with printed title, untrimmed edges. Program for the event, including several ads for local Japanese restaurants..... More
Cat.No: 204904
General management plan newsletter: number 2, March 2003: The Minidoka Monument
Hagerman, ID: National Park Service U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minidoka National Monument, 2003. 8p. including covers, 11.25x13.5 inches, illustrated with b&w photos and a map/plan of the camp, very good in original semigloss wraps. Oversized newsletter of articles, photos, plans and news concerning the internment camp in Hagerman, Idaho..... More
Cat.No: 97018
Go for Broke, Inc. The National Nisei Veterans Organization
Richmond, CA: Go For Broke, [1982]. 8p., 7x8.5 inch brochure; introduction to the organization. Includes an advertisement for the book by the same title. More
Cat.No: 201728
Gochiso: oriental recipes
Denver: Woman's Society of Christian Service, Simpson Methodist Church, 1966. 55 leaves, black plastic binding, card covers worn and soiled. More
Cat.No: 237873
The Granite. 1914
Durham, NH: New Hampshire College, 1914. 159p., very good hardcover in pebbled boards with gilt title and emblem. Yearbook for 1914, with black and white photos of students, faculty and activities. Bookplate of former owner, noting his fraternity (Gamma Theta), with a menu for the fraternity's 1914 senior banquet laid..... More
Cat.No: 196468
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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