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.
New Arrivals
Featured Items
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
Marcos to lift martial law? [handbill]
San Francisco: Philippine Solidarity Network - Bay Area Chapter, 1981. 8.5x14 inch handbill, fold-creased. Calls the Marcos regime's promise a sham. More
Cat.No: 249823
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
Member / Humanity Legion / Bowl of Rice / Feb. 9, 10, 11 1940 / SF Chinatown [pinback button]
San Francisco: Humanity Legion, 1940. 1.25 inch diameter button, very good condition. A series of similar pins were issued with various years of issue, as part of fundraising efforts to defend China from Japan's invasion. More
Cat.No: 185547
Merle Woo vs. University of California Victory! Newsletter. No. 1 (June 1984)
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
Mervyn's California presents Kristi Yamaguchi's A Golden Moment: An extraordinary skating concert to benefit the fight against breast cancer [signed by four Olympic medalists]
n.p. Mervyn's, 1999. [36p.], very good in wraps, program booklet with numerous color photos of the skaters and other performers, some of them signed. Also included is an "International Figure Skating" magazine with cover story on Yamaguchi and a full-page ad for this skating concert; a black and white photo..... More
Cat.No: 182889
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. P. Shalloo and Donald Young
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 Pacific Islander American community. Vol. 2 no. 3 (Jan-Feb. 1992)
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. [Vol. 1 nos. 1, 2, 3]
Berkeley: Monolid, 1999-2000. First three issues of the magazine, very good, 84, 59, 54 pages respectively. More
Cat.No: 200291
Moonroot. No. 2, Moonroutes
Baltimore: the zine, 2011. 41p., staplebound zine, very good. Asian diaspora women's zine. "Our theme for issue two is MOONROUTES. geographical and / or historical happenings, place / space, body as landscape, reincarnations / past lives, diaspora / migrations / borderlands / uprooting, queering the diaspora, displacing biological notions of..... More
Cat.No: 237446
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 photographs]
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 Prepared And Presented By The Citizens Advisory Council To Members Of The Legislature, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., [&c &c] 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
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
Of our own voice
San Francisco: Asian American Women Artists Association, 1997. 64p. spiral-bound exhibition catalog, with photos of the mostly Bay Area artists and black/white reproductions of their work, 9.5x9 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 73735
Okey Ka, 'Cho. No. 2 (Spring 1991)
San Francisco: San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 1991. Single issue of the AIDS education and resources newsletter, 8p., 8.5x11 inches, very good, Filipino text. The English version was called Positive News. More
Cat.No: 198557
One IGLA bulletin #1-5, Spring 1995 - Summer 1998 [5 issue run]
West Hollywood: One Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives, 1998. Five issues, various pagination 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, very good newsletter in pastebound wraps. The first five issues on Kepner's International Gay and Lesbian Archive newsletter that merged with the One Institute. Issue #4 contains a celebration of Jim Kepner's life..... More
Cat.No: 201650
One IGLA bulletin #3-5, Fall 1997 - Summer 1998 [3 issue run]
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
Oriental recipes
[Portland, OR]: Veleda Club, 1974. 48p. plus ads, very good in card covers, black plastic comb binding. Last several pages have ads for Portland-area food companies. Eighth printing. "Members of the Veleda Club, formed by a group of Nisei matrons and affiliated with the Portland, Oregon, Central YWCA, have contributed..... More
Cat.No: 237872
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
阅读完整描述