Reading List – November 2024

Our monthly newsletter shares notices of new book publications that our members email us about. If you or someone whose permission you have has had a book published within the past 12 months, please share the title, subject or (inter)disciplinary area(s), and link in this form, and we will share it with members.

Supporting Korean American Children in Early Childhood Education | Sophia Han, Jinhee Kim, Sohyun Meacham, Su-Jeong Wee
Early childhood professionals can use this one-of-a-kind work to better serve Korean American and other Asian American children in the United States. Four transnational mother-educators share the lived experiences of Korean American children and their families through candid and vivid narratives that counter stereotypical and prejudicial beliefs about these communities. Learn more.

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster | Muriel Leung
Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Learn more.

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong | Katie Gee Salisbury
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history. Learn more.

The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History | By Greg Robinson, With Jonathan van Harmelen
Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg Robinson delves into a range of themes from race and interracial relationships to sexuality, faith, and national identity. Learn more.

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration | Edited by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung
From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization – all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action. Learn more.

Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans | Corinne Mitsuye Sugino
In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize difference to normalize a white, Western conception of the human. Learn more.

The March Fong Eu Story: An Authorized Biography of an Unauthorized Woman | Tim Vandehey and Caren Daniels-Meade
March Fong Eu was a long-serving politician from California. She served as California’s Secretary of State for nearly twenty years, was a strong advocate for voting rights and broke a number of barriers including being the first Asian American woman elected to a state legislature, the first woman elected as California Secretary of State, and the first Asian-American elected to a state constitutional office. Learn more.