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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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
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 McCarran-Walter Immigration Law Threaten American Jobs, Our Cultural Heritage and National Security
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
Pacific and Asian women, resources for ministry: Proceedings from the Conference, Pacific and Asian women in ministry, sisters long before the struggle, May 15-17, 1981, Berkeley, California
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1981. 88p., staplebound wraps, 11x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 204803
Pacific Friends newsletter two issues, September 1991 & #104, January 1994
San Francisco: Pacific Friends SF, 1991 & 1994. Two issues, 8p. each, 8.5x11 inches, news, articles, services and resources, event calenders, photos, very good newsletters. LGBTQ Asians and others organization. More
Cat.No: 234388
Pacific Horizons: Pacific Friends - South Bay newsletter #47, December 1989
San Jose: Pacific Friends - South Bay, 1989. 3p., 8.5x11 inches, news, articles, services and resources, event calenders, very good newsletter on pink stock stapled upper-left corner. LGBTQ Asians and others organization. More
Cat.No: 234389
Pangaea. The first issue
Berkeley: United People of Color, 1990. 43p., staplebound journal, very good, 8.5x11 inches. Contributions by students activists at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 221104
Pao bao / Power news 炮報 January 1989 一九八九年一月
San Francisco: United Service Council, 1989. Single issue of the Chinese-language newspaper, contents mostly devoted to San Francisco's local Chinatown news, but with a harsh editorial on the Chiang "dynasty" of Taiwan on the cover page. The English title is a riff on the Chinese "Pao," which means cannon; the..... More
Cat.No: 182092
Pembela Pemau Jilid 3 bilangan 3
[Baton Rouge-?]: the newsletter, [1975]. 27p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, very good. OCLC lists only one incomplete run at Northern Illinois University, missing this issue. Text in Malay and English. No place of publication stated, but a poem includes the line "Let's examine the roots / of..... More
Cat.No: 167350
Perspective [four issues]
Berkeley: Iranian Students Cultural Organization, 1996-2003. Four issues of the Iranian-American student publication from UC Berkeley. The first two are photoreproduced, the third a copyshop production with clear plastic covers, the last one a glossy magazine. Issues present are Nov/Dec. 1996 (the first), March 1998, June 2000, and Fall 2003..... More
Cat.No: 224023
Philippine National Day / 2nd annual San Diego [leaflet]
National City: Philippine National Day Committee, [1979]. 5.5x8.5 inch leaflet, printd both sides, very good. One side has "Unity is strength" in English and two Filipino dialects. The other side has map and list of endorsers. More
Cat.No: 242172
Philippine Resource Center
Berkeley: the Center, [198-]. Eight-panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, very good; black and white photos. Introduction to the purpose and activities of the informational organization founded by Philippine dissidents and their supporters in the US. Most likely issued 1985, as it mentions events in that year but still contains references to..... More
Cat.No: 180056
Pocket Guide to Minority Health Resources
Rockville, MD: US Dept. of Health & Human resources, Public Healthe Service, Office of Minority Health, 1995. Paperback. 102p., 3.75x6.5 inches, services and resources listings, very good pocketbook paperback in green wraps. State contacts, clearinghouses, organizations, materials, colleges etc. More
Cat.No: 230021
Portraits of Pride II. Chinese-American Legacies - First 160 Years in America
Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 2011. xiii, 288p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with a CD in rear pocket, numerous photos. Very good 10.2x 10x2 inch hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 190711
Portraits of pride; Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2005
Los Angeles: Wing Mar, 2005. 227p., 10.25x10.25 inches, prologue, epilogue, appendix, index, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in dj. Includes the interactive CD rom at rear of book. More
Cat.No: 122681
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, volume 5, number 1, Spring. Special issue: The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex
Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 323p., lightly worn wraps. This issue edited by Chungmoo Choi. More
Cat.No: 130488
Positive magnets [two issues, 1 and 4]
n.p. 2016, 2017. Two issues of the staplebound poetry journal founded and edited by Collin Schuster, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Number 4 is a women's issue, with Women's March cover theme, including works by Eileen Tabios, Joanna Fuhrman, Lydia Cortes, Yoko Onomo, Ruth Lepson, and others. More
Cat.No: 245133
Proceedings of the second national research symposium of limited English proficient student issues: focus on evaluation and measurement, Washington, D.C., September 1991
Washigton: United States Department of Education. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, 1992. Paperback. Two volumes, xv, 457p. and xvi, 477p., tables, figures, footnotes, references, very good paperbacks in white printed wraps. Focuses on Spanish speakers, with consideration of Asian Americans and others. More
Cat.No: 79448
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[Program for the 1980 visit of a Peking Opera troupe to San Francisco] 歡迎中國北京京劇團舊金山區演出
San Francisco: Milton Meyer & Co., sponsored by Japan Air Lines, 1980. [8 leaves], staplebound program booklet, 8.5 x 11 inches, bilingual text, very good. Dianne Feinstein's introductory letter notes that it was the troupe's first visit to the US since normalization. More
Cat.No: 247920
Project Manong
Oakland, CA: Project Manong, n.d. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet folded in thirds to make a mailer, very good. Brochure introducing the organization, described as "a community effort to meet the needs of Filipino Senior Citizens." More
Cat.No: 207731
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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