We celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage month by selecting relative items from our catalog that fit this theme. No-No Boy No-No Boy is a 1957 novel, and the only novel published by the Japanese American writer John Okada. It tells the story of a Japanese-American in the aftermath of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Find No-No Boy in our catalog Tales of the Genji Also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu. Find Tales of the Genji in our catalog Noli Me Tángere Noli Me Tángere is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. Find Noli Me Tángere in our catalog On Writing, Radicalism, and Literary Value: an Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen Nguyen and Fung interview novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen notes his desire to confront the heterogeneous, often contradictory, politics of the Vietnam conflict in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer, and challenge easy or stereotypical approaches to the war and US perspectives of it. Find On Writing in our catalog Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance A study of Korean identities in American cinema and television, this work investigates the career of Ahn (1905-1978), a pioneering Asian American screen icon and son of celebrated Korean nationalist An Ch'ang-ho. Find Hollywood Asian in our catalog We Too sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape our Multiracial Future Nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. Find We Too Sing in our catalog On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. Find On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous in our catalog They Called us Enemy A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. Find they called us Enemy in our catalog And So I Was Blessed This book weaves together three narrative strands: a tourist visiting Viet Nam, a son sojourning to his father's village in the Mekong Delta, and a professor leading his students on a term abroad Find And So I Was Blessed in our catalog From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against the rampant abuse of Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, and gender discrimination, has generated heated debates Find From a Native Daughter
