RESOURCES AND REFERENCES
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (fkwang@aol.com), Asian-American Village Online Contributing Editor
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/village_asian_american.asp
Books For Educators And Parents
Half + Half—Writers on Growing up Biracial + Bicultural, edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998.
Cultural Curiosity—Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots, edited by Josephine M.T. Khu, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla—Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World—A Guide for Parents and Teachers, by Marguerite A. Wright, Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1998.
The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV, Milton Chen, KQED, San Francisco, California, 1994.
Everything you need to know about Asian American History, by Lan Cao and Himilce Novas, Plume Books, New York, 1996.
Asian American Dreams—The emergence of an American People, by Helen Zia, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2000.
Eastern Standard Time—A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, by Jeff Yang, Dina Gan, Tery Hong, and the Staff of A. Magazine, Metro East Publications, Inc., New York, 1997.
Leaving Deep Water—Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures, by Claire S. Chow, Plume Books, New York, 1999
Warrior Lessons—An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power, by Phoebe Eng, Pocket Books, New York, 1999.
The Accidental Asian—Notes of a Native Speaker, Eric Liu, Vintage Books, New York, 1998.
Growing up Asian American—Stories of childhood, adolescence and coming of age in America, from the 1800’s to the 1990s, by 32 Asian American writers, edited by Maria Hong, Avon Books, New York, 1993.
The Woman Warrior—Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage International, New York, 1975.
Polite Lies—On Being A Woman Caught Between Cultures, by Kyoko Mori, Fawcett Books, New York, 1997.
Racism Explained to my Daughter, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, The New Press, New York, 1999
How Race is Lived in America—Pulling Together, Pulling Apart, by Correspondents of the New York Times, Times Books, New York, 2001.
The Colors of Childhood—Separation-Individuation Across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Differences, edited by Salman Akhtar, MD, and Selma Kramer MD, Jason Aronson Inc., Northvale, New Jersey, 1998
Immigration and Identity—Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation, by Salman Akhtar MD, Jason Aronson Inc., Northvale, New Jersey, 1999.
Growing up Nisei—Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49, by David K. Yoo, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, IL, 2000.
It’s the Little Things—Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races, by Lena Williams, Harcourt Books, New York, 2000.
A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism, by Colin Baker, Multilingual Matters, Ltd., Clevedon Boston Toronto Sydney, 2000.
Chinese Americans and their Immigrant Parents—Conflict, Identity, and Values, by May Paomay Tung, PhD, Haworth Press, Inc., New York, 2000.
How to be a Jewish Parent—A practical handbook for family life, by Anita Diamant with Karen Kushner, Schocken Books, New York, 2000.
Raising Nuestros Ninos—Bringing up Latino Children in a Bicultural World, by Gloria G. Rodriguez, PhD, Fireside Books, 1999.
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Perseus Publishing, New York, 2003.
Multiracial Child Resource Book—Living Complex Identities, ed. Maria P. P. Root, PhD, and Matt Kelley, Mavin Magazine, New York.
Multicultural Kids’ Books:
Aani and the Tree Huggers; By Jeannine Atkins
Allison, by Allen Say, Houghton Mifflin
Ashok by Any Other Name, by Sandra Yamate.
Baseball Saved Us / Heroes / Passage to Freedom—the Sugihara Story, by Ken Mochizuki, ill. Dom Lee.
At the Beach / In the Snow / In the Park; By Huy Voun Lee; Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1994, 1995, and 1998; (Beach: American Bookseller’s Pick of the Lists)
Blue Jay in the Desert; By Marlene Shigekawa; illustrations by Isao Kikuchi; Polychrome Publishing; Showcased by Teaching Tolerance Magazine.
The Bracelet; By Yoshiko Uchida, Illustrated by Joanna Yardley; Putnam & Grosset Group, New York, 1976, 1993, 1996; ISBN: 0-698-11390-X
Carlos Digs to China / Carlos and the Squash Plant / Carlos and the Cornfield / Carlos and the Carnival / Carlos and the Skunk; by Jan Romero Stevens, Ill. by Jeanne Arnold; Rising Moon, 2001. (Bilingual)
Coolies, by Yin, Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet.
The Dancing Dragon; By Marcia K. Vaughan, Illustrated by Stanley Wong Hoo Foon; Mondo Publishing, Greenvale, New York, 1996.
Dumpling Soup; By Jama Kim Rattigan; Illustrated by Lillian Hsu-Flanders; Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1993; 1990 (New Voices New World Award)
El Chino; By Allen Say; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1993; ISBN: 0395778751
Exploring China Town: A children’s Guide to Chinese Culture; by Carol Stepanchuk; Illustrated by Leland Wong; Pacific View Press, Berkeley, California, 2001; ISBN: 1-881896-25-0 (Parents’ Choice Honors Award)
Grandfather Counts; By Andrea Cheng, illustrations by Ange Zhang; Lee and Low Books, 2000.
Grandfather’s Journey; By Allen Say; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1993. (Caldecott Medal).
Halmoni and the Picnic / Yunmi and Halmoni’s Trip; By Sook Nyul Choi, Illustrated by Karen Dugan; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston; ISBN: 0395616263
How My Parents Learned to Eat; By Ina R. Friedman, Illustrated by Allen Say; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1987; ISBN: 0395442354; (A Reading Rainbow Selection)
Journey Home, by Lawrence McKay, ill. Dom Lee
Lights For Gita; By Rachna Gilmore; Tilbury House Publishers, 1994; ISBN 0884481514
Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts : Festivals of China; by Carol Stepanchuk and Charles Wong; China Books and Periodicals, 1991; ISBN 0835124819
The Musubi Man : Hawaii's Gingerbread Man; By Sandi Takayama; Bess Press, 1996; ISBN 1573060534
The Name Jar, by Yangsook Choi
Nim and the War Effort; By Millie Lee, Illustrated by Yangsook Choi; Frances Foster Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; New York, 1997.
Samira’s Eid; By Nasreen Aktar (Bilingual in English and Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic, or Somali)
Sam and the Lucky Money; By Karen Chinn; Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu; Lee and Low Books, New York, 1995 (American Book Seller Pick of Lists Award)
Story of the Chinese Zodiac; By Monica Chang; Illustrated by Arthur Lee; Pan Asian Publications USA, Union City, CA, 1994 (Bilingual: English and Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, or Vietnamese)
Tea with Milk; By Allen Say; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1999; ISBN: 0-395-90495-1
Thanksgiving at Obaachan's; By Janet Mitsui Brown; Polychrome Publishing, 1994; ISBN: 1879965070 (American Bookseller’s Pick of the Lists; Parent’s Council Choice Book)
And various young adult titles by Lawrence Yep, Yoshida Uchiko, Marie G. Lee, etc
Online Resources:
IMDiversity.com and the Multicultural Villages
Books/Toys: www.asiaforkids.com,
www.cultureforkids.com,
www.chinasprout.com,
www.aaww.org,
www.speakchineseplease.com,
www.noorart.com,
www.leeandlow.com,
www.pacificviewpress.com,
www.polychromebooks.com,
www.shens.com,
www.asianamericanbooks.org
News: Pacific News Service—pacificnews.org; and Asian Week Newspaper—Asianweek.com
Multiracial: Mavin Magazine—Mavin.ne; Eurasian Nation—
www.eurasiannation.com
Media: Media Action Network for Asian Americans, "A memo from MANAA to Hollywood: Asian Stereotypes—Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them,"
www.manaa.org;
Sikh Mediawatch & Resource Task Force (SMART)—
sikhmediawatch.org
International/Transracial adoption: Mamnon.org,
kaanet.org,
pact.best.vwh.net/adopted/