Remember Vincent Chin!
"Remember Vincent Chin!" became a rallying cry for the Asian American Civil Rights Movement. He was mistaken for a Japanese man and killed by two White men mad about the downturn of the Detroit auto industry. One of the major tragedies was that he was going to be married the following week! Find out about the injustices, murder verdict, and more here!
Vincent Who? [Streaming Resource]
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz.Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial--the first involving a crime against an Asian American--and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement.Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred and racism.
Call Number: E184.A75 Y56 2021ISBN: 9781324002871Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Great Lives from History: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans [Online Resource]
A two-page article about the significance of Vincent Chin. - 'It's Absolutely Worse Now': [Online Resource]
June 17, 2022 New York Times article on Vincent Chin and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics
Women in Science by
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "wittily illustrated [and] accessible volume" (The Wall Street Journal) highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. "The must-read, girl-power STEM book."--InStyle It's a scientific fact: Women rock! This fascinating, educational collection features 50 illustrated portraits of trailblazing women in STEM throughout history. Full of striking, singular art, Women in Science also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary. The trailblazing women profiled include such pioneers as primatologist Jane Goodall and mathematician Katherine Johnson, who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Women in Science celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists, and more!
Call Number: Q141 .I33 2016ISBN: 9781607749769Publication Date: 2016-07-26
Magnificent Minds by
Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry--and the only winner whose daughter also won a Nobel Prize? That in the 17th century, the most accomplished scholar in mathematical astronomy was a Polish woman, Maria Cunitz? This book, which grows out of an exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York, introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine.
Call Number: Q141 .N758 2016ISBN: 9781943431250Publication Date: 2016-09-01
- Chien-Shiung Wu: The First Lady of Physics [Online Resource]
C S Wu was a Chinese-American experimentalist, best known for her path-breaking experiment that showed that parity is not conserved in beta decay. Her results gave a deeper insight into [...]
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung: First Licensed Asian American Aviatrix
- Katherine Sui Fun Cheung [Online Resource]
In 1932, Cheung became the first Chinese American woman to be a licensed pilot. She overcame both...
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: Suffragist
Recasting the Vote by Call Number: JK1896 .C25 2020ISBN: 9781469666129Publication Date: 2021-08-01Cathlee D. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts [...]
Anna May Wong: The First Asian American Hollywood Star
Anna May Wong: Hollywood's First Asian American Movie Star [Streaming Resource]
Anna May Wong : A popular actor during the early twentieth century, Anna May Wong overcame typecasting and the prejudices of her time to become a highly respected artist. She managed to challenge negative stereotypes with her own projects and inspired a generation of Asian American actors to [...]
Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern by
Finalist for the 2020 Organization of American Historians Mary Nickliss Prize Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than sixty films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese and, more generally, "Oriental" women between 1925 and 1940. In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer Lim re-evaluates Wong's life and work as a consummate artist by mining an historical archive of her efforts outside of Hollywood cinema. From her pan-European films and her self-made My China Film to her encounters with artists such as Josephine Baker, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter Benjamin, Lim scrutinizes Wong's cultural production and self-fashioning. Byconsidering the salient moments of Wong's career and cultural output, Lim's analysis explores the deeper meanings, and positions the actress as an historical and cultural entrepreneur who rewrote categories of representation. Anna May Wong provides a new understanding of the actress's career as an ingenious creative artist.
Call Number: PN2287.W56 L56 2019ISBN: 9781439918340Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend by
Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood's golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much like Louise Brooks. She starred in over fifty movies between 1919 and 1960, sharing the screen with such luminaries as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Marlene Dietrich. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, Wong was the second daughter of six children born to a laundryman and his wife. Obsessed with film at a young age, she managed to secure a small part in a 1919 drama about the Boxer Rebellion. Her most famous film roles were in The Thief of Baghdad, Old San Francisco, and Shanghai Express opposite Dietrich. Despite these successes, instances of overt racism plagued Wong's career. When it came time to make a film version of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, she was passed over for the German actress, Luise Rainer. In a narrative that recalls both the gritty life in Los Angeles' working-class Chinese neighborhoods and the glamor of Hollywood at its peak, Graham Hodges recounts the life of this elegant, beautiful, and underappreciated screen legend.
Call Number: PN2287.W56 H64 2012ISBN: 9789888139637Publication Date: 2012-06-01
Bhagat Singh Thind: Soldier, Activist, Spiritual Leader
Philip Vera Cruz: Labor Activist
- Philip Vera Cruz [Online Resource]
Vera Cruz’s early years diverged greatly from those of other Filipino labor leaders... On September 8, 1965, Vera Cruz played an instrumental role in AWOC’s decision to refuse [...]
A Time to Rise (eBook) by
A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s and '80s. Overcoming cultural and class differences, members of the KDP banded together in a single national organization to mobilize their community into civil rights and antiwar movements in the United States and in the fight for democracy and national liberation in the Philippines and elsewhere. These personal accounts document recruitment, organizing, and training in the KDP. More than two-thirds of the stories are by women, reflecting the powerful role they played in the organization and its leadership. Also included are chapters on the struggle for justice for murdered KDP and union leaders Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes. These memoirs offer political insights and inspiring examples of personal courage that will resonate today. A Time to Rise was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
ISBN: 9780295742014Publication Date: 2017-10-01
- How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike Its Radical Politics [Online Resource]The article discusses the Great Delano Grape Strike that started in California on September 8, 1965. It states that Filipino pickers [...]
- Philip Vera Cruz, 89; Helped to Found Farm Worker Union (Obituary; Biography [Online Resource]Philip Vera Cruz, who helped found the United Farm Workers union, died on Saturday at Mercy Hospital in [...]
Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink: First Woman of Color and Asian American in the U.S. House of Representatives
She Votes by
She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since. From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers. This deluxe book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with illustrations by 100 women artists. * A colorful, intersectional account of the struggle for women's rights in the United States * Features heart-pounding scenes and keenly observed portraits * Includes dynamic women from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Audre Lorde She Votes is a refreshing and illuminating book for feminists of all kinds. Each artist brings a unique perspective; together, they embody the multiplicity of women in the United States. * From the pen of rockstar author and historian Bridget Quinn, this book tells the story of women's suffrage. * Perfect gift for feminists of all ages and genders who want to learn more about the 19th amendment and the journey to equal representation * A visually gorgeous book that will be at home on the shelf or on the coffee table * Add it to the shelf with books like Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik; Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl; and Why I March: Images from The Women's March Around the World by Abrams Books.
Call Number: JK1898 .Q56 2020ISBN: 9781452173160Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Patsy Takemoto Mink [Electronic Resource]Seeking to open doors for women, Mink wrote the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act of June 23, 1972, which amended [...]
Ling-Ai Li: Trailblazing Chinese American Producer & Playwright
- Finding Kukan: Uncovering the Story of An Asian American Female Producer from the 1940's [Streaming Resource] KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature documentary to receive an Academy Award in 1942 and was considered lost for decades. When filmmaker Robin Lung discovers a badly damaged film print of KUKAN, she pieces together the inspirational tale of the two renegades behind the making of it -- Chinese American playwright Li Ling-Ai and cameraman Rey Scott. Through a dynamic mix of verite, archival, and re-enactment footage, FINDING KUKAN creates an unforgettable portrait of a female filmmaking pioneer, and sheds light on the long history of racial and gender discrimination behind the camera, which continues to reverberate in Hollywood today.
Li, Gladys Ling-Ai (pages 162-163)
A Chinese American playwright and director, Li was born in Hawaii to the first two Chinese doctors in [...]
Duke Kahanamoku: Father of Modern Surfing, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku was a man of many talents. He was an Olympic gold medalist, father of modern surfing, a Hollywood actor, a sheriff, and an official greeter in Honolulu. King Kamehameha once prophesied that Hawaii would be [...]
The Devil May Care by
Stripped naked and pursued across cactus-studded plains by a band of armed Blackfoot Indians, John Colter escaped certain death to become the one of the most durable characters in western American history. But Colter's harrowing tale was not beyond the ordinary when compared to the adventures of other American explorers. In The Devil May Care, popular historian and travel writer Tony Horwitz has culled through the American National Biography and selected fifty stirring biographies of adventurers who had no one's footsteps to follow in--and yet contributed enormously to our understanding of the world. Horwitz introduces us to fascinating individuals such as John Ledyard, the first American to see what would become the Pacific Northwest, and Elisha Kent Kane, America's first arctic hero, who stumbled upon an extremely strange remedy for scurvy while icebound off of Ellesmere Island. Having set off into the unknown many times himself as a foreign correspondent, Horwitz brings a subtle sense of humor and a reporter's eye for detail to a collection that offers a glimpse inside the lives of historic Americans who brazenly challenged danger as they pursued their wanderlust to extreme climates and forbidding environments. Beginning with a short essay, Horwitz seeks his own definition of exploration, drawing on some of his research into the voyages of Captain James Cook and considering its larger implications throughout history. Archival photographs as well as a lively and personal introduction to each story by Horwitz further enhance the appeal of a volume that winds its way through several centuries of American exploration, affirming that the best adventure stories are the true ones.
Call Number: CT9970 .D49 2003ISBN: 0195169220Publication Date: 2003-10-16
- Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing
From the time we learnt to bodysurf, to our first attempts on boards, to Duke Kahanamoku’s 1914 visit which kicked off surfing’s roll to popularity, Australians have taken the surf and made it [...]
Fred T. Korematsu: Pioneering Civil Rights Leader
Korematsu v. the United States [eBook] by
The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Korematsu v. The United States, which addressed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it had after the court made its ruling. Major players and key events are discussed, including Fred Korematsu, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Knox, General DeWitt, Alfonso Zirpoli, Adolphus, St. Sure, Al Wirin, Charles Fahy, Harlan Stone, Mitsuye, Endo, and Marilyn Hall Patel. Compelling chapters and informative sidebars also cover the Fourteenth Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union, executive orders, Japanese immigration, Russo-Japanese War, World War II, the Japanese American Citizen's League, Issei, Nisei, Executive Order 9066, the Ringle Report, and the Evacuation Claims Act. Korematsu v. The United States forever influenced how we view expansion of governmental power during wartime. This landmark Supreme Court case changed the course of US history and shaped the country we live in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
ISBN: 9781617834738Publication Date: 2012-08-01
Distinguished Asian Americans [eBook] by
Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. This reference work celebrates the contributions of 166 distinguished Asian Americans. Most people profiled are not featured in any other biographical collection of noted Asian Americans. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South Asian Americans (from India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asian Americans (from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) profiled in this work represent more than 75 fields of endeavor. From historical figures to figure skater Michelle Kwan, this work features both prominent and less familiar individuals who have made significant contributions in their fields. A number of the contemporary subjects have given exclusive interviews for this work. All biographies have been written by experts in their ethnic fields. Those profiled range widely from distinguished scientists and Nobel Prize winners to sports stars, from actors to activists, from politicians to business leaders, from artists to literary luminaries. All are role models for young men and women, and many have overcome difficult odds to succeed. These colorfully written, substantive biographies detail their subjects' goals, struggles, and commitments to success and to their ethnic communities. More than 40 portraits accompany the biographies and each biography concludes with a list of suggested reading for further research. Appendices organizing the biographies by ethnic group and profession make searching easy. This is the most current biographical dictionary on Asian Americans and is ideal for student research.
ISBN: 9780313289026Publication Date: 1999-12-30
Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung: First Chinese American Woman Physician
- Margaret Chung
Margaret Chung was the first American-born Chinese woman physician in the United States. She was also responsible for organizing and inspiring members of the armed forces in the fight against [...]
Understanding and Teaching U. S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (eBook) by ISBN: 9780299302443Publication Date: 2014-12-17Though largely neglected in classrooms, LGBT history can provide both a fuller understanding of U.S. history and contextualization [...]
