Asian American, Pacific Islander Heritage Month Materials Available in Mullins Library and Online

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In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Mullins Library staff have compiled a list of digital material available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also available on display on Level 4 of Mullins Library.

eBooks

Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award, follows Willis Wu, who is always the background character, never the respected and celebrated hero.

Land of Milk and Honey centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.

Minor Feelings is a collection of essays by poet Cathy Park Hong examining the racism plaguing the United States.

Three years ago, the University of Hawai'i Press published an anthology titled Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia celebrating the voices of Micronesia. This polyphonic work features poetry, short stories, personal essays and excerpts of plays from over 70 Micronesian writers.

In No-No Boy, a Japanese American refuses to denounce his Japanese heritage and fight for the U.S. during World War II. He struggles to cope with life post-internment and post-prison in this still-relevant 1957 novel.

In We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, an attorney chronicles the post-9/11 history of hatred and racial profiling against various immigrant and undocumented groups, as well as efforts to improve the situation.

In Yellowface, a white woman steals a manuscript from a dead Asian woman and publishes it as her own. However, as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America delves into the forgotten history of Bengali men who arrived via Ellis Island as silk traders and ship workers, and who made new homes in Black, Hispanic and Creole neighborhoods including Harlem, Baltimore, Detroit and New Orleans.

Streaming Videos

PBS Asian American episodes is a series that traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. In an era of U.S. expansion, new immigrants arrived from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, they become America's first "undocumented immigrants."

• Episode 1: Breaking Ground
• Episode 2: A Question of Loyalty
• Episode 3: Good American
• Episode 4: Generation Rising
• Episode 5: Breaking Through

A Girl from Hunan is a film about a 12-year-old girl named Xiao Xiao and her arranged marriage to a two-year-old. She is sent to a remote village where she is to live with her prospective in-laws and raise the boy mostly by herself. Four years later, Xiao Xiao succumbs to the charms of a handsome farmhand, which leads to her reputation being in danger. In a world where dishonored women can be put to death, Xiao Xiao's future is far from certain.

The Bride is a film about a young woman who is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.

The men and women of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, are American citizens and serve in our country's military at a rate three times higher than the rest of the country. Learn why the island's returning veterans say they can't get the healthcare they need in the documentary Island of Warriors.

On the South Pacific Island group of Vava'u, a traditional healer treats people affected by spirits. One day away by ferry, the only Tongan psychiatrist has established a public psychiatry well known across the region. The film The Healer and the Psychiatrist creates a dialogue between them on the nature of mental illness and spiritual affliction, and the shared obstacles they face in providing their services to people in need.

Looking for China Girl features personal stories behind a modern demographic crisis in China. This film follows 24-year-old Xinhau Lu, who still lives with his parents on a small farm in rural China, as he searches for a wife.

The documentary Nailed It charts the rise, struggle, stereotypes and steady hold Vietnamese Americans have on today's multiethnic $8 billion nail economy.

Far East Deep South sheds light on the history of Chinese immigrants living in the American South during the late 1800s to mid-1900s through the emotional journey of Charles Chiu and his family as they travel from California to Mississippi to find answers about his father, K.C. Lou.