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Making waves: an anthology of writings by and about Asian American women
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publication Date
c1989
Language
English
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Part 1. Poem by the wellside / Meena Alexander.
Okasan/mother / Sakae S. Roberson.
A girl on the swing / Chungmi Kim.
The people here: a letter / Myrna Peña-Reyes.
Magic island / Cathy Song.
The world of our grandmothers / Connie Young Yu.
Voices from the past: why they came / Dorothy Cordova.
Korean immigrant women in early twentieth-century America / Sun Bin Yim.
The hardships of escape for Vietnamese women / Van Luu.
Part 2. Shadow in stone / Janice Mirikitani. We the exiled / Brenda Paik Sunoo. War story / Elaine H. Kim. The hopeland / K. Kam. My mother's purple dress / Evelyn Lee and Gloria Oberst. Nisei women and resettlement during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto. Part 3. And all the girls cried / Kathy Wong. Chinatown talking story / Kitty Tsui. Issei working women in Hawaii / Gail M. Nomura. Ladies on the line: Punjabi cannery workers in southern California / Marcelle Williams. Behind unmarked doors: developments in the garment industry / Diane Yen-Mei Wong, with Dennis Hayashi. Women in the Silicon Valley / Rebecca Villones. Asian American women in broadcasting / Felicia Lowe. The gap between striving and achieving: the case of Asian American women / Deborah Woo.
Part 4. Mother / Beheroze F. Shroff.
The loom / R. A. Sasaki.
The parrot's beak / Kartar Dhillon.
Waiting for papa's return / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard.
Dreams of Manong Frankie / Virginia Cerenio.
Part 5. Behind the shadow / Angela Lobo-Cobb.
Double doors / Jonny Sullivan Price.
Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda.
Makapuu Bay / Wakako Yamauchi.
Broad shoulders / Nellie Wong.
You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan.
Mestiza girlhood: interracial families in Chicago's Filipino American community since 1925 / Barbara M. Posadas.
Asian American lesbians: an emerging voice in the Asian American community / Pamela H.
Part 6. Factory girls / Chea Villanueva.
Mosquitoes in the main room / Meena Alexander.
Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto.
Lotus blossoms don't bleed: images of Asian women / Renee E. Tajima.
The business of selling mail-order brides / Venny Villapando.
Domestic violence among Pacific Asians / Nilda Rimonte.
Matchmaking in the classifieds of the immigrant Indian press / Rashmi Luthra.
Part 7. In rememberance / Janice Mirikitani.
For the poets of "Firetree" on the second anniversary of the death of Benigno Aquino / Valorie Bejarano.
Growing up, 1968-1985 / Juanita Tamayo Lott.
The feminist movement: where are all the Asian-American women? / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow.
From homemaker to housing advocate: an interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee / Nancy Diao.
Dust and dishes: organizing workers / Yoichi Shimatsu and Patricia Lee.
Seeking a voice: South Asian women's groups in North America / Jyotsna Vaid.
Asian Pacific women in mainstream politics / Judy Chu.
In rememberance / Janice Mirikitani.
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9780807059043
9780807059050
9780807059050
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