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Aiiieeeee!

An Anthology of Asian American Writers

By Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong, Tara Fickle

In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and...

No-No Boy

By John Okada. Foreword by Ruth Ozeki. Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada and Frank Chin

"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No...

Yokohama, California

By Toshio Mori. Introduction to the 2015 Edition by Xiaojing Zhou. Introductions by William Saroyan and Lawson Fusao Inada

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends...