Holiday Gift Ideas

Thank you, again, for your support of our community book project, Where Are You From?: An Anthology of Asian American Writing. This holiday season, you may want to consider supporting our individual anthology authors. Their AA books, DVDs, and CDs would make nice gifts for friends and family. Here are some suggestions for you to choose from:


Title: The Woman Who Could Not Forget, Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking
Author: Ying-Ying Chang
Description: A moving and illuminating memoir about the life of world-famous author and historian, Iris Chang, as told by her mother. Iris Chang’s best-selling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter and The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris’ legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.
For more information: www.yy.irischang.net  and yy@irischang.net
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DVD Title:  The Fall of the I-Hotel
DVD Title: What’s Wrong With Frank Chin?
DVD Title: Manilatown is in the Heart
DVD Title: Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue
Author:  Curtis Choy
Description:  Original uncompromised histories and biographies from Asian Amerika.
For more information:  http://www.chonkmoonhunter.com/contact.html
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Title: Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America
Author: Darrell Y. Hamamoto
Description: Tears apart and discards the self-flattering and defensive ethno-nationalism of an Asian American Movement that has been hijacked by corporatist entities on the one hand and trivialized on the other. This is the book too dangerous for the cautious academic publishers. Check out related YouTube channel AsianAmerimedia for educational and entertaining material not available elsewhere as well as: Alex Jones Show (20 million viewers/listeners per week) Professor Darrell Hamamoto on InfoWars: Exposing Fascist Agendas  and Red Ice Radio (subscription only; 5 million listeners/week) Red Ice Radio – Darrell Hamamoto – Hour 1 – The Dark Side of Asian America & Political Correctness
For more information: dyhamamoto@ucdavis.edu or dyhamamoto@gmail.com

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Title: Going Public: Critical Race Theory and Issues of Social Justice
Author: Nicholas D. Hartlep, Ph.D.
Description: Join Nicholas on an excursion into the questions of school, society, and the unseen oppression and privilege they provide in relation to critical race theory and issues of social justice. You’ll discover startling realities about minorities’ disadvantages in the public school system and uncover the long journey to revamping school curricula for equality. After Going Public, you’ll never think about schools and society in the same way again.
For more information: ndhartl@ilstu.edu

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Title: The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success
Author: Nicholas D. Hartlep, Ph.D.
Description: A sourcebook for researchers, higher education administrators, and high school and university students, this book will assist readers in locating research and literature on the model minority stereotype. Includes an annotated bibliography on the stereotype that Asian Americans are successful. Resources for scholars to use and teachers to read must not simply duplicate what others (and previous literature) have written about, but must challenge it. Each of the ten chapters is thematic and challenges the model minority stereotype. The most comprehensive book written on the model minority myth to date.
For more information: ndhartl@ilstu.edu

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Title: The Model Minority Stereotype Reader: Critical Challenging Readings for the 21st Century
Author: Nicholas D. Hartlep, Ph.D.
Description: This collection focuses on Asian Americans as a frequently overlooked ethno-racial and ethno-cultural group, examining how stereotypes about Asian Americans are harmful both to students and their teachers. The material helps students gain a deeper understanding of the model-minority stereotype and its implications. The first three sections address academic achievement; myths surrounding Asian-American parenting; and sexualization, athleticism, and racialization. The fourth section, devoted to counter-narratives, discusses neocolonialist attitudes, unrealistic expectations, and the idea of the perpetual foreigner. Questions following each chapter can be tailored to undergraduate and graduate audiences for classroom discussion or as written assignments.
For more information: ndhartl@ilstu.edu

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Title: Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States
Author: Cleveland Hayes, Ph.D. and Nicholas D. Hartlep, Ph.D.
Description: Reconsiders the ways and strategies in which antiracist scholars do their work, as well as provides pragmatic ways in which people – White and of color – can build cross-racial, cross-communal, and cross-institutional coalitions to fight White supremacy.
Employing the methodology of autoethnography, each chapter illustrates the individual journey that the chapter contributor took to “unhook” him- or herself from Whiteness. Explains Whiteness in ways never conceptualized before. Suggests approaches to “unhooking” from Whiteness, while sharing the authors’ continual struggles to identify and eradicate the role of Whiteness in education and society in the United States.
For more information:  ndhartl@ilstu.edu

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Title: East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres
Author: Andrew Lam
Description: In this compact collection of short personal essays, Vietnamese-American writer Lam considers how quickly the world (and, more specifically, California) has gone global. The most compelling insights come through reflections on his own family’s escape from Vietnam in 1975, the East vs. West cultural differences in raising children, and the narrative potency of Manga.
Contact: alam@newamericamedia.org

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Title: Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Author: Andrew Lam
Description: In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family.
Contact: alam@newamericamedia.org

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Title: Birds of Paradise Lost
Author: Andrew Lam
Description: The stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the Bay Area. Short-listed for the California Book Award, it won the Pen/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 2013.
For more information: alam@newamericamedia.org

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Title: I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying
Author: Matthew Salesses
Description: A novel in flash fiction, this book is a raw, honest look at parenting, commitment, morality, and the spaces that grow between and within us when we don’t know what to say. In these 115 titled chapters, a man who learns he has a 5-year-old son is caught between the life he knows and a life he may not yet be ready for. This is a book that tears down the boundaries in relationships, sentences, origin and identity, no matter how quickly its narrator tries to build them up.
For more information: m.salesses@gmail.com

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Title: Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity
Author: Matthew Salesses
Description: Explores the unique racism Asian Americans face, including the model minority myth, the impact of Jeremy Lin’s fame on Asian American representation in national media, and America’s perception of “Gangnam Style” singer and K-Pop sensation, Psy. Salesses’ essays (and his insightful and anecdote-filled footnotes) also give an honest and personal account of growing up as a Korean adoptee raised by white parents, all the while struggling with the many conflicts associated with double-consciousness, and reflecting on the common experience the adopted child has when he looks into the mirror and all of a sudden realizes that his skin color is not the same as his parents’.
For more information: m.salesses@gmail.com

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Title: The Mango Bride
Author: Marivi Soliven
Description: Two women migrate to California to escape their widely disparate lives in Manila. When their lives collide unexpectedly, a decades-old secret is revealed.
For more information: Visit http://marivisoliven.com
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Title: How to Get Sponsorships & Endorsements
Author: Simon S Tam
Description: A guide for nonprofits and artists to get funding and partners for their work.
For more information: www.simontam.biz

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Title: Music Business Hacks: The Daily Habits of The Self-Made Musician
Author: Simon S Tam
Description: A complete reference guide for music artists to develop their own careers.
For more information: www.simontam.biz

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CD Title: The Yellow Album
Author: The Slants
Description: The newest CD release from the world’s first and only all-Asian American dance rock band, The Slants. Sparkling synth pop sounds reminiscent of Depeche Mode, New Order, and The Cure mixed with modern rock to bring life (and social justice awareness) to any party!
For more information: www.theslants.com

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Titles: Varied (Da Kine Dictionary, Oriental Faddah and Son, Da Word, Buss Laugh, Living Pidgin)
Author: Lee Tonouchi
Description of Da Kine Dictionary: Because Pidgin, like other languages, is constantly evolving, author Lee Tonouchi, “Da Pidgin Guerrilla,” asked people in Hawai’i and beyond to contribute their favorite Pidgin words, with definitions, sentences and origins. The result is this illustrated collection, which also reveals where (and when) contributors “wen grad.”
For more information: hybolics@lava.net

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And of course, our Anthology is available, too:

Title: Where Are You From?: An Anthology of Asian American Writing
Authors: Many AA voices and perspectives
Description: Compilation of a diverse range of personal essays, stories, critical articles, poems, art, and other work, this anthology seeks to express the truth of our lived realities and to give voice to an Asian America that is frequently marginalized by society. Where Are You From? questions the common prejudice often expressed by the majority culture that Asian Americans are alien or foreign to the USA. In the words of Lawson Inada, we want to tell people where we come from — where we’re really from.
For more information: http://asianamericanwriting.com/contact/
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