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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

Subjects:

American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Fiction, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose ...
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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Guiyou Huang, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, Asian American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Immigrants In Literature--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The first reference of its kind, this volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 49 nationally and internationally acclaimed Asian American writers of short fiction. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of ...
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The first reference of its kind, this volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 49 nationally and internationally acclaimed Asian American writers of short fiction. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
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Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Poets, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, its poetry has been a neglected area of study. This reference helps remedy that situation by providing extended entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent. The entries are arranged alphabetically and each is ...
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Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, its poetry has been a neglected area of study. This reference helps remedy that situation by providing extended entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent. The entries are arranged alphabetically and each is written by an authority in the field. Each includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the poet's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography. As an overview of Asian American poetry, this volume synthesizes current research and points to the urgent need for additional scholarship.
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Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Asian American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Biography--Dictionaries, Autobiographical Fiction, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Asian american c?uto6iograpG?ers Asian American Autobiographers A Bio-Bibliographical Critical...London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asian American autobiographers : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook...
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Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity

Book by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Asian American Youth--Social Conditions, Asian American Youth--Social Life And Customs, Asian Americans--Ethnic Identity, Asian Americans--Race Identity, Subculture--United States, United States--Ethnic Relations, United States--Race Relations, United States--Social Life And Customs--1971-

Collections: History, Entire Library

Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America.

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Journal Articles on: asian american

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The Ties That Bind: Asian American Communities without "ethnic Spaces" in Southeast Michigan

Journal article by Barbara W. Kim; Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 30, 2007

Subjects:

American history, Asian Americans, Civil rights, Colleges & universities, Community, Japanese Americans, Michigan, Political alliances, Social networks, United States

Collections: Entire Library

The Ties That Bind: Asian American Communities without "ethnic Spaces...the 2000 census, over 12 million Asian Americans, almost 70 percent of them either...heterogeneity, discourses about Asian American communities have focused on ethnic...
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The Native and the Diasporic: Owning America in Native American and Asian American Literatures

Journal article by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2006

Subjects:

American literature, Asian Americans, Kingston, Maxine Hong, Literary criticism, Momaday, N Scott, Native North Americans, Novels

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...America in Native American and Asian American Literatures by Shirley Geok-Lin...verities" (Shields 1991, 15). Asian Americans are among the most recently arrived...political, and economic status. Asian Americans form the fastest-growing group...
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Currents of Study: Charting the Course of Asian American Literary Criticism

Journal article by Stephen Hong Sohn, John Blair Gamber; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 37, 2004

Subjects:

Asian American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Criticism--Analysis, Literary criticism--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Study: Charting the Course of Asian American Literary Criticism. by...Sohn , John Blair Gamber Asian American literature has now been in production...critical mass firmly in place, Asian American literary criticism continues to...
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Asian American Masculinity: A Review of the Literature

Journal article by Yen Ling Shek; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 14, 2006

Subjects:

Asian American men--Psychological aspects, Asian American men--Social aspects, Masculinity--Social aspects, Men's studies, Racism--Social aspects, Sex role--Social aspects, Sex roles--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Asian American Masculinity: A Review of the Literature. by Yen Ling Shek Asian Americans, as a community and political identity...ethnic groups (Hune, 2002). Although Asian American history dates as early as the 1700s...
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Reading Asian American Poetry

Journal article by Juliana Chang; MELUS, Vol. 21, 1996

Subjects:

American poetry--Asian-American authors, Multiculturalism--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Reading Asian American poetry. by Juliana Chang In the 1960s...read race" in order to situate my project of reading Asian American poetry within the context of Asian American and multicultural literary studies. What accounts for...

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Magazine Articles on: asian american

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Filmic Face-Lift: Better Luck Tomorrow Makes over Asian American Cinema

Magazine article by Noy Thrupkaew; The American Prospect, Vol. 14, May 2003

Subjects:

Asian American actors--Analysis, Asian American actors--History, Asian Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Filmmakers--Attitudes, Independent films--Social aspects, Lin, Justin--Attitudes

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...Better Luck Tomorrow makes over Asian American cinema. by Noy Thrupkaew...favor. After watching Lins tale of Asian American high-school overachievers gone...movie, making it the first ever Asian American film acquired at a festival, and...
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Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making

Magazine article by Russell Moy; The Christian Century, Vol. 121, February 24, 2004

Subjects:

Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Christianity with an Asian Face: Asian American Theology in the Making...voice to the growing diversity of Asian-American theology--a field once dominated...promising beginning for doing Asian-American theology, but he does not tap...
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Asian, American, Feminist

Magazine article; The Progressive, Vol. 57, June 1993

Subjects:

Asian American women--Crimes against, Das Dasgupta, Shamita--Political activity, Political activists--Personal narratives

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Asian, American, feminist When Shamita Das Dasgupta...up a false dichotomy for battered South Asian women, suggesting that they must separate...would say, |Youre in America. Act like Americans now. You cant do here what you did at home...
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Asian American Teachers: Do They Impact the Curriculum? Are There Support Systems for Them?

Magazine article by Hema Ramanathan; Multicultural Education, Vol. 14, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Asian Americans, Cultural identity, Curricula, Ethnicity, Minority & ethnic groups, Schools, Support groups, Teachers, Teaching, Work environment

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Asian American Teachers: Do They Impact the Curriculum...2000). These issues as they relate to Asian Americans have other features that complicate the matter. The term "Asian American," classed as one group for purposes...
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Obama Restores Asian American Initiative, Gives Education Department a Lead Role

Magazine article by Charles Dervarics; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 26, November 12, 2009

Subjects:

Asian Americans, Colleges & universities, Data collection, Hispanic Americans, Initiatives

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Obama Restores Asian American Initiative, Gives Education Department...reinstated the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with the U...inadequate data collection. "Too often, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders are all lumped...

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Newspaper Articles on: asian american

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Bashir Is Forced to Grovel after 'Stupid, Tasteless' Asian Babes Gag; Sorry Sight: Martin Bashir, Pictured with Co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on ABC's Nightline, Had to Apologise for His "Moment of Stupidity" at an Asian American Journalists' Dinner. ABC Presenter Juju Chang, Left, Who Was Seated beside Him, Was the Butt of One Joke

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 5, 2008

Subjects:

Television broadcasting industry, Television journalists

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Had to Apologise for His "Moment of Stupidity" at an Asian American Journalists Dinner. ABC Presenter Juju Chang, Left...comments made during an after-dinner speech to the Asian American Journalists Association. Surveying the guests at the...
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Asian-American Artists with Two Distinct Styles

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, August 4, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Asian-American artists with two distinct styles...simultaneously exhibit the work of two Asian-American painters. Its just a couple of blocks...geographically, in interpreting the Asian-American experience in the United States. Mr...
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Asian-American Institute Is Not Involved in the DNC Dirty Money Scandal

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 19, 1997

Subjects:

Trie, Charles Yah Lin

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Asian-American institute is not involved in the...falsely accuse the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute (CAPACI) of "loudly...potential chilling effect in the Asian Pacific American community. We are a nonprofit...
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La. Candidates Are Study in Diversity; Asian-American Neophyte, Cajun Veteran Are Finalists

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

La. candidates are study in diversity; Asian-American neophyte, Cajun veteran are finalists. Byline...Cajun two-step. "We have a Cajun woman against an Asian American, and I tell you that speaks to the whole nation, and...
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Dinner Is a Mix of Asian, American

Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, October 30, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Dinner is a mix of Asian, American by Ann Geracimos President...Chef Walter Scheib called a mix of American and Asian cuisines: chilled lobster and marinated...included compositions by popular American composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: asian american

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, and Sandra Cisneros), Native American (e.g., Louise Erdrich and N. Scott Momaday), Asian-American (e.g., Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan), and homosexual (e.g., Edmund Wilson , David Leavitt, and Rita Mae Brown...
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Mineta, Norman Yoshio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1931 , American government official, the first Asian American to be appointed to a cabinet post, b. San Jose, Calif...sponsored legislation (1988) to compensate to Japanese Americans interned during the war. He served until 1995, when...
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Fong, Hiram Leong

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1942 45), and became a wealthy businessman. In 1958 he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Hawaii, becoming the first Asian-American senator. He served three terms (1959 77). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
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State, United States Department Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the making and execution of American foreign policy. Current...of African, European, East Asian and Pacific, Western Hemisphere...correspondence with European and East Asian countries, and the Second Diplomatic...was given jurisdiction over American diplomacy in Latin America...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...population were of African-American descent in part. The Asian population totaled...that was partially Asian. The Native American population of the...especially in the African-American and Hispanic populations...Indo-European and Asian languages, and most...

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