Thomas Branigan Memorial Library and the Branigan Cultural Center are two of 61 organizations nationwide selected to receive a 2021-2022 NEA Big Read grant
Booklist’s guide to East Asian and East Asian American historical fiction
Since the start of the pandemic, the US has seen a sharp rise in harassment and violence directed at Asian Americans. Despite a North American presence older than the nation itself (Filipino sailors landed in California in the 16th century) and centuries of contributions that have shaped daily American life railroads, agriculture, technology, books Americans of Asian descent continue to be attacked for being foreign, for being “other.” The high-profile Atlanta murders in March of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, resulted in greater awareness and growing support of Asian and Pacific American communities, but anti-Asian hate crimes continue to escalate, including thousands more attacks that remain unreported.
Geographical Magazine Writer s Reads: Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of Speak, Okinawa Written by Geographical 2021 Elizabeth Miki Brina is a teacher and author. Her debut book, Speak Okinawa, is out now. Here she shares some of the books that have inspired her perceptive worldview
The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts • Maxine Hong Kingston • 1976
Maxine Hong Kingston is magnificent as she captures the history and mythology of her ancestors from China, as well as the lives of her family of immigrants and Asian Americans.
Autobiography of My Mother • Jamaica Kincaid • 1996
With exquisite and inimitable prose, Jamaica Kincaid portrays the complicated, defiant, lonely yet resilient life of a woman in Dominica.
Buddha In The Attic Analysis
Buddha In The Attic Analysis
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Newspaperâs Effect on Japanese-American Internment The novel, Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka tells the story of a group of Japanese picture brides and their life in San Francisco leading up to World War II and the Japanese Internment. While describing the womenâs lives leading up to internment, Otsuka makes it apparent that there is a lack of reliable information provided about what is happening. In Lloyd Chiassonâs article, Japanese-American Relocation During World War II: A Study of California Editorial Reactions, three California newspapersâ editorials from 1941 and 1942 are analyzed and reveal a bias towards Japanese-Americans. When compared to Otsukaâs novel, Chiassonâs article reveals that the belittling of the Japanese community