A poetic and moving picture book biography celebrating the life and work of the visionary Japanese American woodworker George Nakashima. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, George Nakashima began a love story with trees that grew throughout his remarkable life as an architect, designer and woodworker. During World War II, George, with his wife Marion and their baby daughter, endured incarceration in Minidoka prison camp, where he drew comfort from the discipline of woodworking. Once free...
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father’s pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind yellow parasols, and...
Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persistent Prejudice (Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persisten)
by Z.B. Hill
Different skin colors, different languages, different religions, different abilities--these are all things that sometimes cause us to judge other people unfairly. Asians are one group that has experienced continuing prejudice. From limits on immigration many years ago to modern stereotypes, Asians have had to struggle to overcome prejudice and discrimination. Learn more about what prejudice means for Asians today. "Gallup Guides for Youth Facing Persistent Prejudice: Asians" covers the history o...
The Tragic History of the Japanese-American Internment Camps (From Many Cultures, One History)
In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II (Milestones in American History)
by John Davenport
Briefly discusses some of the reasons that Koreans have come to live in the United States, how they have preserved Korean customs and traditions in their new homeland, and what life is like for them here.
East Indians in America (In America (Hardcover))
by Wendy Aalgaard
Americans from India and Other South Asian Countries (New Americans)
by Ken Park
Asian-Americans in Old West (Cornerstones of Freedom )
by Gail Sakurai
Describes the important role of the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians in the settlement of the American West.
