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English 004 (Rajaram): Asian American Literature: Key Books/Journals

Encyclopedias/Handbooks

Literary, Historical and Cultural Criticism

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature
Journal of Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies Books
American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro
Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia
Call Number: STACKS: E184.O6 .Z53 2000
Asian American Studies Now
Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen by Eleanor Ty (Editor); Donald C. Goellnicht (Editor, Editor); Eleanor Rose Ty (Editor)
Emerging Voices by Huping Ling (Editor)
ISBN: 9780813546254

Publication Date: 2008-12-30
The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry by Xiaojing Zhou
Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches by Russell Jeung
History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots by Jonathan H. X. Lee
Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers by Esther M. Ghymn
Call Number: STACKS: PS153.A84 G47 1995
Race in American Film
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech by Patti Duncan
Thinking Its Presence by Dorothy J. Wang
Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave by Yoonmee Chang
Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam; Phoebe Eng (Foreword by)
Call Number: STACKS: E184.O6 Y45 2001

Asian American Ethnicities and Origin Countries

Bangladeshi Americans

The Bangladeshi Diaspora in the United States After 9/11 by Shafiqur Rahman
Call Number: STACKS: E184 .B13 R34 2011

Cambodian Americans

Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States by Sucheng Chan
Call Number: STACKS: E184.K45 C48 2004

Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents by May Paomay Tung; Terry S. Trepper
Call Number: STACKS: E184.C5 T85 2000
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Tritia Toyota

Filipino/Filipina Americans

Guamanians

Hawaiians

Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani
In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics by Rona Tamiko Halualani
Call Number: STACKS: DU624.65 .H345 2002

Hmong Americans

Indian Americans (East Indian/South Asian Indian Americans)

Japanese Americans

Korean Americans

Laotian Americans

Malaysians

Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, and the Creation of Malaysia by Matthew Jones

Thai Americans

The History of Thailand by Patit Paban Mishra

Vietnamese Americans

Culture and Customs of Vietnam by Mark W. McLeod; Nguyen Thi Dieu
Call Number: REFERENCE: DS556.42 .M43 2001
Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America by Karín Aguilar-San Juan

Primary Sources (History)

Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience
Call Number: STACKS: E184 .A75 V65 2012
Japanese-American Internment During World War II: Primary Sources by Peggy Daniels Becker
Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources