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May is AAPI Heritage Month!

Pierce Library invites you to join us in celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

Observed annually in May, this is a time to recognize and celebrate the contributions and wide range of experiences within Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in the United States. Originally introduced as Asian Pacific American Heritage Week in 1977 and later expanded to a month-long celebration in 1990, the month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, as well as the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, which was largely laid by Chinese immigrants. 

There are a number of terms that are used to denote Asian and Pacific Islander populations, including Asian Pacific American (APA), Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI), Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA). These "umbrella" terms encompass an incredibly diverse constellation of identities and ethnicities, including people of East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Central Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ancestry. Watch the video below to learn about how these terms originated:
 

Nonfiction Books

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California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary

Edited by Christine Bacareza Balance & Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Edited by Shireen Roshanravan & Lynn Fujiwara

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Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

Edited by Gail M. Nomura & Shirley Hune

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Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures

Edited by Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Leora Kava & Craig Santos Perez

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Q&A: Voices From Queer Asian North America

Edited by Martin Manalansan, Alice Y. Hom, & Kale Bantigue Fajardo

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Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II

By Richard Cahan, Michael F. Williams, Dorothea Lange & Ansel Adams

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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad

Edited by Gordon Chang & Shelley Fisher Fishkin

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A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty

Edited by Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, Ikaika Hussey & Erin Kahunawaika′ala Wright

Memoirs & Essays

Fiction

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The Committed

By Viet Thanh Nguyen

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To Paradise

By Hanya Yanagihara

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All This Could Be Different

By Sarah Thankam Mathews

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Gods of Want: Stories

By K-Ming Chang

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Land of Milk and Honey

By C Pam Zhang

Coming Soon

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Afterparties: Stories

By Anthony Veasna So

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Interior Chinatown

By Charles Yu

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All My Rage

By Sabaa Tahir

Coming Soon

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Land of Big Numbers

By Te-Ping Chen

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The Leavers

By Lisa Ko

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A History of Burning

By Janika Oza

Coming Soon

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Skinship: Stories

By Yoon Choi

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Insurrecto: A Novel

By Gina Apostol

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We Are Not Free

By Traci Chee

Coming Soon

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Four Treasures of the Sky

By Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Poetry

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Time Is a Mother

By Ocean Vuong

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If They Come for Us: Poems

By Fatimah Asghar

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Eye Level: Poems

By Jenny Xie

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Sight Lines

By Arthur Sze

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Obit

By Victoria Chang

Coming Soon

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Inquisition

By Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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Not Here

By Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Oceanic

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Yellow Rain: Poems

By Mai Der Vang

Coming Soon

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A Nail the Evening Hangs On

By Monica Sok

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A Distant Center

By Ha Jin

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