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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Little Tokyo Maps. Events calendar of Nisei Week
Los Angeles: TV Fan Company, 1999. 19p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 161068
Living Well Group newsletter; HIV+ Asian and Pacific Islander Network...
San Francisco: Living Well Group/API Wellness Center, 1994-1997. Seven issue broken run, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, articles, news, events, services and resources, illustrations and photos, very good in wraps. Issues include: March & April 1994, April & November 1995, March & July 1996 and January 1997. More
Cat.No: 221622
Maganda: the Pilipino student magazine. Issue Five
Berkeley: Maganda, 1992. 48p., staplebound magazine, very good. The theme of this issue is The Strength of the Pilipina. More
Cat.No: 225797
Mahadharma: a quarterly review. March 1951
San Francisco: The Buddhist Churches of America, 1951. 32p., staplebound wraps, light handling wear. Main article is T.D. Suzuki on the Development of Shin Teaching. More
Cat.No: 189611
Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prayer Day [handbill]
San Leandro, CA: Badarikashrama, 1991. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good, announcing an event including prayers, meditation, and a panel discussion led by Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor with members of SANE, the Grey Panthers, and other groups. Issued in the context of the first Iraq War. More
Cat.No: 270461
Mandarin Chop Suey Cook Book
Chicago: The Pacific Trading Company, 1928. 96p., paperback, some edgewear and stains around the edges. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 267829
Medics of the People (a New People's Army Documentary) [handbill]
[San Francisco]: The Philippine-American Workers International Solidarity Committee, [1994]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one side only with information on the film and the two showings (La Pena Cultural Center Berkeley & The Women's Building SF) graphic of NPA fighter in the jungles, lightly-worn on white stock. The film was..... More
Cat.No: 244237
Merle Woo vs. University of California Victory! Newsletter. No. 1...
San Francisco: Merle Woo Defense Committee, 1984. 10p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner, lightly toned, very good. Announces that Woo will return to UC Berkeley to teach after having been fired, it says, "because she is a socialist feminist, a trade unionist and a lesbian." Woo was..... More
Cat.No: 190936
Miduûm ûi kil
Chicago: The Korean Buddhist temple of Chicago, 1982. 188p., very good in wraps. Texts for recitation and hymns with music, presented in both Hangul script and Chinese characters. More
Cat.No: 163829
Minority peoples in a nation at war, edited by J....
Paperback. viii, 276p. + [viii] ads, wraps, worn copy. The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 223, September 1942. This special issue covers a number of aspects pertaining to the relationship between both native minorities and immigrant groups and the American war effort. More
Cat.No: 8328
Moments. Asian Voices volume VIII
New York: Asian Cultural Union at New York University, 1995. 48p., wraps. Annual art and literary journal. 8.25x10.8 inches. More
Cat.No: 122387
Momentum: a UC San Diego publication of the Asian and...
San Francisco: Momentum, 1992. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, pages toned. Single issue of the campus activist paper. More
Cat.No: 252878
Monolid: An Asian American magazine for those who aren't blinking...
Berkeley: Monolid, 1999-2000. First three issues of the magazine, very good, 84, 59, 54 pages respectively. More
Cat.No: 200291
More Than Meets the Eye: Albany High School, 1995-1996
Albany CA: the high school, 1996. 160p., the usual yearbook format but a little taller (11.5x8.5 inches), the photos and jokes snarkier than exemplars from earlier decades, a bit edgeworn with faint damp-ripple to text leaves, a handled copy with numerous jocular inscriptions to "Jack," the senior whose book this..... More
Cat.No: 235467
Mothers' Day, May 8, 1949: Filipino Methodist Church, S.F. [two...
San Francisco: Kami Studios, 1949. 8x10 inch black and white photographs showing large crowd of kids, parents and grandparents posing in front of the church, dressed in Sunday best. Inscribed at bottom on the negative of one of the photos with identification. Also included is another photo showing a smaller..... More
Cat.No: 144946
Multi-cultural Issues in Mental Health Services: strategies towards equity. Report...
[Sacramento]: State of California Health and Welfare Agency, Department of Mental Health, Citizens Advisory Council, October, 1979. Paperback. iii, 171p., 8.5x11 inches, foreword, introduction, overview, summaries, discussions, conclusion, appendice, stables, very good trade paperback in white decorative wraps. More
Cat.No: 229509
National Reconstruction Journal. Volume 1 (August 1942)
New York: Committee on Wartime Planning for Chinese Students in the United States; China Institute in America, 1942. 109p., paperback journal, errata slip tipped in (originally pasted inside front cover with several spots of glue, now loose but still present). Very good. First issue of the journal, with a small..... More
Cat.No: 265445
The New Century Enterprise: [six issue broken run]
San Francisco: Graphic Arts Class at Balboa New Century Enterprise, 1993-1994. Six issue broken run of the school newsletter, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, articles, events, sports, very good on heavy stock. Student newsletter produced by multicultural students. Issues include: 1:2-5, 2:1 & 2, December 10, 1993 - December..... More
Cat.No: 220691
No Opio O Punahou Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1970-1971
Honolulu: the school, 1971. Paperback. 224p., paperbound in 11x8.5 inch wraps, yearbook in non-standard format: no singleton mugshots but a plethora of candid snapshots (usually of small groups) captioned with more than the usual humor and a touch of naughtiness. Prelims and terminal leaves covered with farewell holograph messages. This..... More
Cat.No: 187682
Odiyan. Tibetan temple in northwest America
Annapolis, CA: Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center, 1996. 53p., wraps. With preface by founder Tarthang Tulku describing his exile from Tibet and efforts to preserve Tibetan culture and religious texts abroad. More
Cat.No: 161099
Oeji: chaemi siin chakp'umjip no. 2
Seoul: Ch'ŏnghan, 1990. 171p., very good in wraps, text in Korean. Poetry by Koreans abroad, mostly in California. More
Cat.No: 175102
One IGLA bulletin #3-5, Fall 1997 - Summer 1998 [3...
West Hollywood: One Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives, 1998. Three issues, various pagination 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, very good newsletter in pastebound wraps. One issue contains a celebration of Jim Kepner's life. Kepner had passed away in November 1997. Rear cover of issue #3 is in Chinese and represents the..... More
Cat.No: 199905
Our Buddhist reader
Denver: Tri-State Buddhist Church, 1960. 65p., blue buckram boards, sun-fading along left side of front cover, glue marks inside front cover from former bookplate; OCLC shows one holding in Denver. More
Cat.No: 180880
Our Immigration Law under Attack: How Proposed Changes in the...
New Orleans: The Independent American, 1965. Ten-panel leaflet, very good. Tax Fax No. 62. States that Johnson's proposed immigration reforms would assault American workers by inviting cheap competition, while "unlimited, non-quota Orientals and Negroes would be allowed." States that the law would also welcome communist agents and the insane. More
Cat.No: 254786
Pacific and Asian Americans: emerging models for ministry
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1981. 71p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Cover gives date as 1980, but a slip laid in corrects this typo. More
Cat.No: 204827
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains...
Hom, Nancy; Stephanie Lowe
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