Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: AAPI Nonfiction Available at CSCC

RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970.

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.

This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture.

Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer.

From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American--"in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself" (NPR)

A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness.

A "provocative and sweeping" (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores--and reimagines--Asian American identity in a Black and white world.

The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with bonus material!

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume.

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history.

This study details the history of Asian American student activism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as students rejected the university's definition of minority student needs that relied on a model minority myth, measures of under-representation, and a Black-White racial model, concepts that made them an "unseen unheard minority."