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Scott and Laurie Oki Endowment for Books in Asian American Studies
The Oki Endowment supports the publication of books in Asian American Studies, including scholarly books, creative writing, and other works that promote an understanding of Asian American culture.
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The Unknown Great
Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History
Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg...
ISBN: 9780295751894
more detailsContemporary Asian American Activism
Building Movements for Liberation
In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures...
ISBN: 9780295749808
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The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita
This beautiful and poignant biography of Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita uses his paintings and wartime diary to vividly illustrate the experiences, uncertainties, joys, and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II internment and...
ISBN: 9780295749693
more detailsBecoming Nisei
Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
Tacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious,...
ISBN: 9780295748221
more detailsThe Unsung Great
Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans
From a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people...
ISBN: 9780295747965
more detailsAsians in Colorado
A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State
Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of...
ISBN: 9780295743653
more detailsJohn Okada
The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison...
ISBN: 9780295743516
more detailsStoried Lives
Japanese American Students and World War II
During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes—often in their own words—how nisei...
ISBN: 9780295977966
more detailsEnduring Conviction
Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted...
ISBN: 9780295742816
more detailsAltered Lives, Enduring Community
Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration
Altered Lives, Enduring Community examines the long-term effects on Japanese Americans of their World War II experiences: forced removal from their Pacific Coast homes, incarceration in desolate government camps, and ultimate resettlement. As part of...
ISBN: 9780295983813
more detailsPaper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high
comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and...
ISBN: 9780295980799
more detailsNisei Soldiers Break Their Silence
Coming Home to Hood River
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on...
ISBN: 9780295992099
more detailsA Principled Stand
The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States
In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's...
ISBN: 9780295994321
more detailsJudgment Without Trial
Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II
2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist
Judgment without Trial reveals that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began making plans for the eventual internment and later incarceration of the Japanese American...
ISBN: 9780295984513
more detailsShopping at Giant Foods
Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California
From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success...
ISBN: 9780295992945
more detailsBorn in Seattle
The Campaign for Japanese American Redress
The story of the World War II internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese-born permanent residents is well known by now. Less well known is the history of the small group of Seattle activists...
ISBN: 9780295981420
more detailsLetters from the 442nd
The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic
This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with...
ISBN: 9780295987453
more detailsPhoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern...
ISBN: 9780295979458
more detailsCities of Others
Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers...
ISBN: 9780295994031
more detailsGrowing Up Brown
Memoirs of a Filipino American
"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a ‘campo’ boy...
ISBN: 9780295986425
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