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The month of May is commemorative since it signifies an era in history when the to the United States.  Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI) celebrates, recognizes and honors their tremendous to American culture and society, including science and medicine, literature and art, sports, and recreation, government and politics, and activism and law.  "I intend to live life, not just exist" - George Takei.  "Winning is not always the barometer of getting better." - Tiger Woods.

Discover some of the chosen titles and or view a specifically created and selected by Fatoma Rad, MS LIS, MA HEA, Acquisitions Librarian at 51³Ô¹Ï's Greenley Library.  In an unending pursuit of sustaining and establishing a safe and equitable culture, we encourage you to explore the outlined list of literary works below.  We hope you take advantage of this month's selection, all feedback is welcome.

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  • Wee, Natalie. Beast at Every Threshold : Poems. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022.
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  • Jacob, Mira. Good Talk : a Memoir in Conversations. One World trade paperback edition, One World, an imprint of Random House, 2020.
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  • Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America : a History. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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  • Takei, George, et al. They Called Us Enemy. Expanded edition., Top Shelf Productions, 2020.
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  • Huang, Jennifer. Return Flight : Poems. First edition., Milkweed Editions, 2022.
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  • Hong, Cathy Park. Minor Feelings : an Asian American Reckoning. First edition., One World, 2020.
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  • Rhee, Jeong-eun. Decolonial Feminist Research : Haunting, Rememory and Mothers. Routledge, 2021.
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• • Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven Out : the Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. First edition, Random House, 2007.
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  • Iyer, Deepa (Deepa Vasudeva). We Too Sing America : South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. The New Press, 2015.
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  • Cha, Frances. If I Had Your Face : a Novel. First edition., Ballantine Books, 2020.
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  • Castillo, Elaine. America Is Not the Heart. Viking, 2018.
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  • Menon, Sandhya. From Twinkle, with Love. First Simon Pulse paperback edition, Simon Pulse, 2019.
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  • Lee, Min Jin. Pachinko. First trade paperback edition., Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2017.
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  • Prashad, Vijay. The Karma of Brown Folk. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
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  • Chung, Nicole. All You Can Ever Know : a Memoir. Catapult, 2018.
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  • Ng, Celeste. Everything I Never Told You. Penguin Books, 2015.
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  • Davé, Shilpa., et al. Global Asian American Popular Cultures. New York University Press, 2016.
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  • Yang, Jeff, et al. Rise : a Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now. Illustrated by Julia Kuo, Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
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  • Wu, William F. The Yellow Peril : Chinese Americans in American Fiction, 1850-1940. Archon Books, 1982.
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