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Tells the life story of Dora Yum Kim. In this title, the author reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean-American who immigrated to this country as an adult - she carves around Dora's compelling and courageous life story, a story of her own and one of all Korean-Americans.

Gathers together eleven plays that speak in the "hybridized American voices of Asian descent - and often dissent." This title brings forth vibrant work that challenges producers and audiences to broaden their expectations, to attend to the unfamiliar voices that express the universal and particular vision of Asian-American playwrights.

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.

Monterey Park, California, was dubbed by the media as the "First Suburban Chinatown." This book reports on how pervasive anti-Asian sentiment fueled a series of initiatives intended to strengthen "community control. It also explores how race and ethnicity issues are used as political organizing tools and weapons.

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline.

Chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution.

Answers the question: Toward what end and for whom is Atlanta's regional planning process working?

How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora

How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora

Based on the interviews with eighty people who have epilepsy, this book presents an account of what it is like to cope with a chronic illness, while working, playing, and building relationships. It recounts how people discover they have epilepsy and what it means and how families respond to someone labeled 'epileptic'.

A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights due to false accusations against him. This title recounts the civil right abuses suffered by Sylvester Andriano, an Italian American Catholic civil leader whose religious and political activism in San Francisco provoked an Anti-Catholic campaign against him.

How popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to live

Provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu's irrepressibility gives shape to - and reinforces - the persistent Yellow Peril myth.

Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline.

Defining the main principles of a distinct African philosophy, this work rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy.

This comprehensive book traces the history and development of visual traditions in the Kongo religions of Africa and Cuba (where it is known as Palo Monte).

How veterinarians and pet owners manage companion animal euthanasia

Reprint of the ed. published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1966.

When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government disarmed them. This book tells the story of the wartime experience of these young men.