Join us in celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. Below is a sampling of resources on AAPI heritage in the library, including decolonial travel guides, memoirs, novels and graphic novels, plays, films, current news, and primary sources.
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i
edited by Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
New Title Shelf DU624.5 .D486 2019
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir
by Bich Minh Nguyen
General Collection CT275.N523 A3 2008
The Late Homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang (Minnesota author)
General Collection E184.H55 Y36 2008
Ebook
They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei (Graphic novel)
Diversity Display D769.8.A6 T355 2019
This One Summer
by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Graphic novel)
General Collection PN6733.T34 T45 2014
Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
by Celeste Ng
General Collection PS3614.G83 L58 2017
Disgraced: A Play
by Ayad Akhtar
General Collection PS3601.K53 D57 2013
Crazy Rich Asians directed by Jon M. Chu
Streaming (available until August 2021)
Special Report: Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (Current news)
Archives Unbound: Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life (Primary Source)
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