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Recommended Readings on Asian Pacific American Experiences
Getting to Know the APA Experience: Essential Readings
- Espiritu, Yen Le. 1992. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities. Philadelphia, PA: Tiple University Press.
- Fong, Timothy P. 2002. The Contiporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- Kitano, Harry H.L. and Roger Daniels. 2001. Asian Americans: ierging Minorities. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- Takaki, Ronald T. [1989] 1998. Strangers From a Different Shore: a History of Asian Americans. Revised and updated ed. Boston, MA: Back Bay Books.
- Tuan, Mia. 1998. Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian American Experience Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Wu, Frank. 2002. Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White. New York: Basic Books.
APA Students and Education
- Lee, Stacey J. 1996. Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Children. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Lee, Stacey J. 2005. Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Lee, Jennifer and Min Zhou (eds.). 2004. Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity. New York: Routledge.
- Nakanishi, Don T. and Tina Yamamoto Nishida (eds.). 1995.The Asian American Educational Experience: a Sourcebook for Teachers and Students. New York: Routledge.
- Ooka, Valerie and Li-Rong Lilly Cheng (eds.). 1998. Struggling to be Heard: the Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Park, Clara C., A. Lin Goodwin and Stacey J. Lee (eds.). 2001. Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
- Park, Clara C., A. Lin Goodwin and Stacey J. Lee (eds.). 2003. Asian American Identities, Families, and Schooling. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
- Park, Clara C. and Marilyn Mei-Ying Chi (eds.). 1999. Asian-American Education: Prospects and Challenges. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.
Getting Personal: Collections of Narratives and Autobiographies
- Asian Women United of California (ed.). 1989. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
- Chow, Claire S. 1998. Leaving Deep Water: Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures. New York: Plume Book.
- Hernández, Daisy and Bushra Rehman (eds.). 2002. Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. New York: Seal Press.
- Hong, Maria (ed.). 1993. Growing Up Asian American: Stories of Childhood, Adolescence and Coming of Age in America, from 1800s to the 1900s by 32 Asian American Writers. New York: Avon Books.
- Jacob, Iris (ed.). 2002. My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out. New York: Owl Books.
- Kim, Elaine H., Lilia V. Villanueva and Asian American Women United of California (eds.). 1997. Making More Waves: New Writings by Asian American Women. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
- Kumashiro, Kevin K. (ed.). 2004. Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists. New York: Harrington Park Press.
- Lee, Joann Faung Jean (ed.). 1992. Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia. New York: The New Press.
- Min, Pyong Gap and Rose Kim (eds.). 1999. Struggle for Ethnic Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
- Nam, Vickie (ed.). 2001. Yello-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. New York: HarperCollins.
- O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.). 1998. Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Penn, William S. (ed.). 1997. As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Root, Maria P.P. (ed.). 1996. The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Shah, Sonia (ed.). 1997. Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire. Boston, MA: South End Press.