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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Shades of power: newsletter of the Institute for Multiracial Justice [five issues]
San Francisco: Institute for Multiracial Justice, 1998-2002. Five issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter; very good. Numbers present are vol. 1 no. 3 and 4, vol. 2 no. 2, Fall 2001 (from after 9/11), and Summer 2002. Contributions by Leonard Peltier, Diane Fujino, Betita Martinez and others. More
Cat.No: 248382
Shades of power: newsletter of the Institute for Multiracial Justice [six issues]
San Francisco: Institute for Multiracial Justice, 1998-2002. Six issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter; very good. Numbers present are vol. 1 no. 3 and 4, vol. 2 no. 2, Summer and Fall 2001 (the latter from after 9/11), and Summer 2002. Contributions by Leonard Peltier, Diane Fujino, Betita Martinez and..... More
Cat.No: 248381
Shang bao / Chinese Commercial News. Vol. 1 no. 12
San Francisco: the newspaper, 1976. Single issue of the weekly newspaper published at 640 Kearny, 20p., tabloid format; horizontal fold, evenly toned. More
Cat.No: 248722
Shao nian Zhongguo chen bao wu shi zhou nian ji nian zhuan kan / The Young China morning paper 50th anniversary (1910-1960)
San Francisco: Young China, 1960. 598p., hardcover, very good; includes black and white photos of SF Chinatown people and activities. Text in Chinese. Front endpaper has the ownership stamp of Philip Choy, the architect better known for his work on Chinese American history. More
Cat.No: 242215
Shao nian Zhongguo chen bao wu shi zhou nian ji nian zhuan kan / The Young China morning paper 50th anniversary (1910-1960)
San Francisco: Young China, 1960. 598p., hardcover, mild edgewear, ownership inscription penned on textblock edge; includes black and white photos of SF Chinatown people and activities. Text in Chinese. More
Cat.No: 242216
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Shi shi te kan [News Special] No. 4 (June 10, 1970)
Berkeley, CA: the newspaper, 1970. Single issue of the tabloid-format Chinese-language newspaper issued by radical students and community organizers in Berkeley, 4 pages. Paper lightly toned, still supple. Rare and important periodical representing the radicalization of foreign (primarily Hong Kong) and Chinese-American students at Berkeley; many of the students involved..... More
Cat.No: 157091
Shidai bao / San Francisco Journal. Vol. 4 no. 46
San Francisco: the newspaper, 1975. Single issue of the pro-Mainland weekly newspaper published at 927 Kearny, 16p., tabloid format; horizontal fold, evenly toned. More
Cat.No: 248721
Shidzuoka Japan Tea / Celebrated for purity and high quality. Served at the Japan Tea Houses at P. P. I. Exposition Grounds [folding fan]
[San Francisco]: [Shidzuoka Tea], [1915]. Printed advertisement on folding paper fan made for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with portrayal of Mount Fuji and tea pickers on the other side. One of the wooden handles is missing the part below the pin at bottom. More
Cat.No: 228669
"Simpson / Mazzoli II" - Nuevos ataques a los derechos de inmigrantes
Oakland: Bay Area Committee Against the Simpson / Mazzoli Bill; etc. 1983. Six-panel brochure opposing new legislation as a reprise of the 1982 Simpson / Mazzoli bill, which had called on employers to attest to employee immigration status and made it illegal to knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants. More
Cat.No: 246096
Singing your own song; the women, youth, children, and friends of Glide Memorial Church
San Francisco: the Church, 1995. 40p., illus. with photos, poetry by Janice Mirikitani, Maya Angelou, and other celebrity poets, cover art and book design by Nancy Hom, 9x10 inches, wraps. Back cover is irregularly sun-faded, else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. On the Church and its youth programs, with writings..... More
Cat.No: 93338
Sojourner: the women's forum; vol. 12, #8, April 1987, Asian women in two worlds issue
Cambridge: Sojourner, 1987. Newspaper. 44p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, features, ads, illustrations, photos, reviews, mild toning otherwise very good on newsprint. Also International Women's Day, China's One-Child Policy. More
Cat.No: 185855
Sounds celebrating resistance. Issue 3
Sacramento, CA: the newspaper, 1997. [20p.], tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold. "Killing trees in the service of music and politics." Includes an interview with Fred Ho. More
Cat.No: 248822
The state of Asian Pacific America: a public policy report. Policy issues to the year 2020
Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute; University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. xix, 318 p., softcover, new, still in plastic wrap. More
Cat.No: 207076
A Study of Federal Immigration Policies and Practices in Southern California: a report prepared by the California Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Washington DC: US Commission on Civli Rights, 1980. Magazine. ix, 61p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, footnotes, charts and figures, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 203022
Summer Vacation
San Gabriel, CA: the zine, 2012. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches. Zine put together by members of the band Summer Vacation. Seems to be written in the first person by singer Mark Chen, and includes lyrics to their songs. More
Cat.No: 188471
Symposium: minority rights; California Law Review, volume 63, number 3, May 1975
Berkeley, CA: School of Law of the University of California, Berkeley, 1975. 596-844p., wraps mildly shelf worn, vol. 63, no. 3 of the California Law Review containing articles mainly on Chicano legal rights including UC Berkeley economist Paul S.Taylor's "Mexican migration and the 160-acre water limitation" regarding the fight for..... More
Cat.No: 153622
T. H. S., The Alert, 1942 [Turlock High School yearbook]
Turlock CA: for the high school by Harder's P[rinting] S[ervice?], 1942. Unpaginated, middle-school yearbook format with less information than is usual (no indices, no joke page) but pleasant chapter dividers, 11x8.5 inch embossed red cloth casing lettered white. Edgeworn with a little fray, front hinge is partially split and very..... More
Cat.No: 230833
Tea Leaves: An Asian American Arts Magazine [eleven issues]
Berkeley: Tea Leaves, 1987-1994. Eleven issues of the publication, issued twice each year; from Spring 1987 to the 1993-94 double issue no. 12; apparently the missing issue would have been Fall 1990. Most are 8.5x11 inches in staplebound wraps; three of the later issues are 5.5x8.5 inches. The Spring 1988..... More
Cat.No: 220422
Texas long grain: photographs by the Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1982. 59p., very good in wraps, signed and personally inscribed by many of the photographers next to their work, including Leland Wong (with small sketch), Jim Dong, Jerry Jew, Peter Man, Norman Yee and Zand Gee. Black and white photographs reflecting various aspects of..... More
Cat.No: 184599
Thai Yellow Pages & Directory in USA / Thai Yenlo Phetchet
Los Angeles: Sereechon Enterprises, 1980. 232p., creased wraps, minor pen notations on several pages. Listings for Thai-American businesses, mostly in Southern California, as well as for Thai-American professionals in various states. More
Cat.No: 196942
These are the Yaos
[San Francisco]: the zine, 2015. [6p.], staplebound zine, 2.75x4.25 inches, very good. Booklet with black and white photocopies of photos of an Asian American family. "All these pictures found at Goodwill, 2015." More
Cat.No: 217957
Thòi báo gà. No. 14/15 (March and April, 1971)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1971. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, creased from mailing, postal marks, foxing. Translations of opinion pieces that originally appeared in Vietnamese-language publications, opposing US military policy. More
Cat.No: 249305
Thòi báo gà. Special issue (May 1972)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1972. 12p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, rubberstamp of the US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. This issue devoted to coverage of a visit by Vietnamese students to Carbondale, IL to oppose the AID Viet Center. Several pages of introductory text followed..... More
Cat.No: 227048
Tiên phong / Avant garde. No. 6/7
Montreal: Association of Vietnamese Patriots in Canada, 1971. 36p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, vertical crease. Double issue of the journal supportive of the Vietnamese guerrillas, with articles on the GI antiwar movement, updates on American defeats, and the Seven-Point Peace Plan. More
Cat.No: 197482
Time is winding up; poems from Galileo High School 1989
San Francisco: Galileo High School, 1989. Paperback. unpaginated, 5.5x8 inches, very good in trade pictorial wraps. The "bright" high; predictably, the poets are promising and sophisticated. Almost one in three of these poets bears an Asian surname. Facets 13. More
Cat.No: 149041
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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