Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “toshio mori”
Skip side bar filters

  • Yokohama, California

    by Toshio Mori ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Other Wes Moore

    One Name, Two Fates

    by Wes Moore ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Souls of Black Folk: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition ( W.E.B. Du Bois Classics)

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • No-No Boy

    by John Okada, Frank Chin ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    "No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • America Is in the Heart

    by Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao ...
    A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Chinaman's Chance

    One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream

    by Eric Liu ...
    From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged -- and indeed may displace America -- at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Philip Vera Cruz

    A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement

    by Lilia Villanueva, Craig Scharlin ...
    Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the long history of farm labor struggles in California. Their efforts led to the creation of the United Farm Workers union under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer.Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • On the Margins of Tibet

    Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier

    by Ashild Kolas, Monika P. Thowsen ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of Tibetan cultural life.Ashild Kolas and Monika Thowsen ... Read more

    Free

  • Desert Exile

    The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family

    by Yoshiko Uchida ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China

    by Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic ... Read more

    Free

  • Growing Up Brown

    Memoirs of a Filipino American

    by Peter M. Jamero Sr., Fred Cordova ...
    Series series Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
    "I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a ‘campo’ boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD