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Tasked with bringing more cohesion to the Asian and Island Pacific communities in diaspora, Gold House names the first six of its 2022 books.

“Postcards from Salinas” featured photos taken by Narciso Bulosan Caliva, who was born in the Philippines in 1902 and later moved to the Salinas Valley where he opened a photography studio.

Encouraging ‘multicultural representation and societal equity,’ nonprofit Gold House releases its latest book recommendation list amid anti-Asian violence in many parts of the world. Entering Tiananmen Square in Beijing, December 2017. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Mostofa Siraj Mohiuddin Authors on the List Include Vuong, Zauner, Bulosan Regular readers of Publishing Perspectives may remember our writeup in October of the inaugural Gold House Book Club program designed to “champion authe...

In response to thousands of reported bias incidents, the call and budding movement to #StopAsianHate has fostered an unprecedented wave of Asian American solidarity that has quickly spread nationwide following the Atlanta-area shootings. This has been heavily driven by a collective sense of fear and outrage that anyone in the community might be the next target. Videos of Asian elders being attacked and — in extreme cases — killed by much younger men have gone viral, but so has the video of ...

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening The surge in hate crimes is feeding a new spirit of solidarity. But it’s also renewing a longstanding question for the movement: How do disparate sets of people unite without flattening their substantial differences? By Noah Y. KimUpdated April 2, 2021, 3:05 a.m. Email to a Friend Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.Stephanie Keith/Getty An odd thing about the ter...