Books for AANHPI Heritage Month

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! The Federal Asian Pacific American Council has chosen the theme of Advancing Leaders for 2023. Their website is full of historic and current resources for AANHPI heritage month. Explore this amazing Care Package, poems, meditations, films, and other cultural nutrients for times like this curated with love by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Check out some of our recent ebooks below and visit the library to browse our print book display. Library Resident Selina Portera recommends Parasite, a film you can watch through the library's film database, Kanopy. Search "Asian Pacific American" in Kanopy to find other related films and documentaries.

Recent AANHPI eBooks: 

• Asian American Histories of the United States
  
  by Catherine Ceniza Choy, 2022
• Ask the Brindled (poetry)
  
  by Noʻu Revilla, 2022
• Awake in the River and Shedding Silence (poetry)
  
  by Janice Mirikitani and Juliana Chang, 2022
• Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives
  
  by Eleanor Ty, 2022
• A Bridge of Words: Views Across America and Japan
  
  by Hiroaki Sato, 2022
• Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
  
  by Bruce Henderson, 2022
• Empire and Environment Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
  
  by Jeffrey Santa Ana, et al., 2022
• Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures
  
  by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, et al., 2022
• Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
  
  by Saara Kekki, 2022
• Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment in World War II Arkansas
  
  by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer, 2022
• New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America
  
  by Chrossy Yee Lau, 2022
• Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs
  
  by Rocio G. Davis, 2022
• Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism
  
  by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, 2023
• Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
  
  by Elena Tajima Creef, 2022
• Tabemasho! Let's Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America
  
  by Gil Asakawa, 2022
• Time Is a Mother (poetry)
  
  by Ocean Vuong, 2022
• Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour (A Graphic Novel): A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption after World War II
  
  by Andre R. Frattino, et al., 2022
• Two Brown Dots (poetry)
  
  by Danni Quintos and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 2022
• Western Journeys
  
  by Teow Lim Goh, 2022

More AANHPI eBooks:                                                                                                            

• A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania
  
  by Lorenz Gonschor, et al., 2019
• Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory
  
  by Brian Masaru Hayashi, 2021
• Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou
  
  by Carl A. Brasseaux, et al., 2022
• California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary
  
  by Christine Bacareza Balance, et al., 2020
• Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation
  
  by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, 2021
• Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
  
  by Tritia Toyota, 2020
• Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans
  
  by David K. Yoo, et al., 2020
• Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire
  
  by Sarah Miller-Davenport, 2019
• The Great Mahjong Book: History, Lore, and Play
  
  by Jelte Rep, 2006
• Inclusion: How Hawai'i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America
  
  by Tom Coffman, 2021
• The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
  
  by Anthony Christian Ocampo, 2016
• The Loneliest Americans
  
  by Jay Caspian Kang, 2021
• Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
  
  by Jun Okada, 2015
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  
  by Cathy Park Hong, 2020
• The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University
  
  by Rick Bonus, 2020
• Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
  
  by Jane H. Yamashiro, 2017
• Rise: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now
  
  by Jeff Yang, et al., 2022
• The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies
  
  by Cindy I-Fen Cheng, 2017
• Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
  
  by Nikki Khanna , 2020