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New Additions

  • Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology, edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma
  • 2009-2011 National Directory of Scholarships, internships, and Fellowships for Asian American and Pacific Islander Students by University of Maryland, OCA, JACL
  • The Historic Netsch Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Eileen M. Tanner
  • One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
  • Angry Little Girls in Love by Lela Lee


Magazines

  • Audrey

  • Colorlines

  • Filipinas

  • Giant Robot

  • Hyphen

  • KoreAm

  • Little India

  • Nhà

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Films and Multimedia

  • Lela Lee's 5 Angry Episodes of Angry Little Asian Girl (video)

  • Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee

  • Still Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee

  • Can't Stop Won't Stop:  The Next Lesson by Zentronix Production

  • Conscience and the Constitution

  • Charlotte Sometimes

  • First Person Plural

  • Ground One: Voices of Post 9/11 Chinatown (DVD)

  • Heart Mountain: Three Years in a Relocation Camp

  • Honor Bound: A Personal Journey

  • I Failed Math by Amy Anderson

  • ImaginAsian 2K4 "Cinematically Incorrect"

  • Kelly Loves Tony

  • Miss India Georgia

  • My America (...or honk if you love Buddha)

  • Bao Phi: The Nguyens EP (audio)

  • On Strike! - Ethnic Studies 1969 - 1999

  • Searching for Asian America (2004)

  • Sentenced Home

  • Shopping for Fangs

  • The Slanted Screen
  • Slaying the Dragon

Literature

  • America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan

  • American Paper Sons edited by Benson Tong

  • Asian American X edited by Arar Han and John Hsu

  • The Arrival, by Shaun Tan

  • Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj

  • Charlie Chan is Dead edited by Jessica Hagedorn

  • Charlie Chan is Dead 2 edited by Jessica Hagedorn

  • China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung

  • Of Customs and Excise: Short Fiction, by Rachina Mara

  • Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

  • The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston

  • The Gangster we are all Looking For by Le Thi Diem Thuy

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Legends from Camp (Poems), by Lawson Fusao Inada

  • More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership, and Faith, edited by Nikki Toyama , et al.

  • Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

  • Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings edited by Amy Ling

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • No-No Boy by John Okada (2)

  • Of Customs and Excise by Rachna Mara

  • Sista Tongue by Lisa Linn Kanae

  • Story-Wallah - short fiction from South Asian Writers edited by Shyam Selvadurai

  • Take Out:  Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America edited by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara

  • The Very Inside:  An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women edited by Sharon Lim-Hing

  • Turning Japanese:  Memoirs of a Sansei, by David Mura

  • We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan

  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Journals and Reports

  • A Community of Contrasts by the Asian American Justice Center

  • AAPI Nexus Volume 1, Number 1 (Community Development) by the UCLA AAS Center

  • Asian American Compass by published by Asian American Institute

  • American Attitudes Toward Chinese Americans & Asian Americans: A Committee of 100 Survey, byCommitte of 100

  • The Asian American Educational Experience edited by Don T. Nakanishi and Tina Yamano Nishida

  • Asian American Yearbook 2006/2007 edited by Angela E. Zavala

  • Filipino American College Students by D. Rodriguez

  • Making Data Count: South Asian Americans in the 2000 Census with Focus on Illinois by Padma Rangaswamy and Ann Lata Kalayil

  • Minorities in Higher Education Twenty-Second Annual Status Report by Bryan J. Cook and Diana I. Cordova

  • New Directions for Student Services: Working with Asian American College Students, edited by Marylu K. McEwen, et al

  • The New Face of Asian Pacific America edited by Eric Lai (2)

  • Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora Vol 2, No 1 and 2 edited by Nobuko Adachi and James Stanlaw

  • Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora Vol 3, No 1 and 2 edited by Nobuko Adachi and James Stanlaw

  • The State of Asian America: Trajectory of Civic and Political Engagement, by LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics)

Gender and Sexuality

  • Asian American Sexualities edited by Russell Leong

  • Dragon Ladies edited by Sonia Shah

  • Making Waves by Asian American Women

  • Making More Waves by Asian Women United of California

  • More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership, and Faith, edited by Nikki Toyama , et al.

  • Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom

  • Restored Selves:  Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro

  • Take Out:  Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America edited by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara

  • The Very Inside:  An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women edited by Sharon Lim-Hing

  • Where the Body Meets Memory:  An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, & Identity, by David Mura

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Advocacy Resources

  • Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy: A Popular Education Resource for Immigrant & Refugee Community Organizers, by Eunice Cho, et al
  • The One-Hour Activist by Christopher Kush
  • Organizing for Social Change by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall and Steve Max
  • Stir It Up:  Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy by Rinku Sen
  • Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Maurianne Adams, et al.

Non-Fiction

  • Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization edited by Evelyn Hu-DeHart

  • The Art Of Gaman:  Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946, by Delphine Hirasuna

  • Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia

  • Asian American Literature by Elaine H. Kim

  • The Asian American Movement by William Wei

  • Asian American Panethnicity by Yen Le Espiritu

  • Asian American Studies edited by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Min Song

  • Asian Americans: An Interpretive History by Sucheng Chan

  • Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment edited by Steve Louie

  • Asian American Youth:  Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity edited by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou

  • Atlas of Asian American History, by Monique Avakian

  • The Columbia Guide to Asian American History by Gary Y. Okihiro

  • Contemporary Asian America edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood (2)

  • The Contemporary Asian American Experience by Timothy P. Fong

  • Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticisms edited by Darrell Y. Hamamoto and Sandra Liu

  • Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

  • Cultural Compass:  Ethnographic Explorations of Asian Americans edited by Martin Manalansan

  • Distinguished Asian American Political and Governmental Leaders, by Don Nakanishi and Ellen Wu

  • Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, by Jeff Yang et al

  • Egotrip's Big Book of Racism! by Sacha Jenkins et al

  • Finding Iris Chang:  Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, by Paula Kamen

  • Fresh Talk Daring Gazes edited by Elaine H. Kim and Margo Machida

  • Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? by Mia Tuan

  • Immigrant Acts by Lisa Lowe

  • In Defense of Asian American Studies by Sucheng Chan

  • An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature edited by King-Kok Cheung

  • Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour, by Wing Young Huie

  • Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy 1850-1990 by Bill Ong Hing

  • Margins and Mainstreams by Gary Y. Okihiro

  • Monitored Peril by Darrell Y. Hamamoto

  • New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans,edited by David K. Yoo

  • Orientations:  Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora edited by Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa

  • Part Asian, 100% Hapa, portraits by Kip Fulbeck

  • Positions East Asian Cultures Critique published by Duke University Press

  • Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience by Angelo N. Ancheta

  • The Retreat from Race by Dana Y. Takagi

  • Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, edited by M. Evelina Galang, et al.

  • The State of Asian American Activism and Resistance in the 1990s edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan

  • Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki (2)

  • The Sum of our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans edited by Teresa Williams-Leon and Cynthia Nakashima

  • Teaching Asian America edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

  • Turning Japanese:  Memoirs of a Sansei, by David Mura

  • Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype by Stacey J. Lee

  • Warrior Lessons, by Phoebe Eng

 

Ethnicity/Area-Specific Resources

  • The Art Of Gaman:  Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946, by Delphine Hirasuna

  • Asian Indians of Chicago by the Indo-American Center

  • Chinese in Chicago: 1870-1945, edited by Chuimei Ho and Soo Lon Moy

  • Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait edited by Melvin G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones

  • Filipino American College Students by D. Rodriguez

  • Filipinos in Chicago by Estrella Ravelo Alamar and Willi Red Buhay

  • Japanese Americans in Chicago by Alice Murata

  • The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad

  • Korean Americans in Chicago, by Kyu Young Park

  • Koreans in the Windy City by Hyock Chun, Kwang Chung Kim, and Shin Kim

  • Namasté America by Padma Rangaswamy

  • Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora Vol 2, No 1 and 2 edited by Nobuko Adachi and James Stanlaw

  • Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora Vol 3, No 1 and 2 edited by Nobuko Adachi and James Stanlaw

  • A Part, Yet Apart edited by Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth

  • Pin@y Educational Partnerships:  Volume 1: Phillipine and Filipina/o American History, by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

 

Guides

  • 201 Icebreakers Group Mixers, Warm-Ups, Energizers, and Playful Activities by Edie West

  • Asian American Compass

  • Asian American Educational Experiences, edited by Don T. Nakanishi and Tina Yamano Nishida

  • Asian Pacific American Books 2007 by the Asian American Curriculum Project

  • The Asian Pacific American Federal Career Guide by U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Office of Personnel Management

  • Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling:  Career Strategies for Asians, by Jane Hyun

  • Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents by Jeanette Yep, et al

  • Invitation to Lead:  Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders, by Paul Tokunaga

  • Losing Face and Finding Grace: Bible Studies for Asian Americans, by Tom Lin

  • Managing Teams for Dummies by Marty Brounstein

  • Notable Asian Americans, edited by Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall

  • Scholarships for Asian-American Students published by Peterson's

  • Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities edited by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu



Other Resources

  • 2006-2007 UIC Staff Directory

  • Introduction to Asian American Studies Spring 2007 by Karen Su

  • Our History Is Still Being Written by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moises Sio Wong

  • The University of Illinois at Chicago: A Pictorial History by Fred W. Beuttler, Melvin G. Holli, and Robert V. Remin

 

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