Collection Highlights - Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Our latest Collection Highlights are on display in the glass case in the library lobby. We are featuring highlights from our collection in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month pays "tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success"(asianpacificheritage.gov).
The items on display are:
- In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American Struggle for Equality by Eileen H. Tamura - Stacks D 769.8 A6 T37 2013
- Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki - Stacks E 184 O6 T35 1998
- Prisons and patriots: Japanese American wartime citizenship, civil disobedience, and historical memory by Cherstin M. Lyon - Stacks D 769.8 A6 L86 2012
- Holding up more than half the sky: Chinese women garment workers in New York City, 1948-92 by Xiaolan Bao - Stacks HD 6073 C6 U533 2001
- A legal history of Asian Americans, 1790-1990 by Hyung-chan Kim - Stacks KF 4848 A83 K56 1994
- Keeping faith with the Constitution by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan and Christopher H. Schroeder - Stacks KF 4550 Z9 L578 2010
- Yellow: race in America beyond Black and white by Frank H. Wu - Stacks E 184 O6 W84 2002