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22 Mar, 30 tweets, 9 min read
If you’re learning about Asian American women and feminism, and our politics, perhaps for the first time right now, here are a few books off my shelf you could check out. A short thread.
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminist Breathe Fire, edited by Sonia Shah. 1997.
YELL-Oh Girls! edited by Vickie Nam. 2001.
Asian American Women and Men, by Yen Le Espiritu. 1997.
Asian American Dreams by @HelenZiaReal. 2000.
Margins and Mainstreams by Gary Okihiro. 1994.
Unbound Feet by Judy Yung. 1995.
Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion by Leslie Bow. 2001.
Asian American Feminisms collection, edited by Leslie Bow. 2013.
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs and @scottkurashige. 2012.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. 1975.
Quiet Odyssey by Mary Paik Lee. 1990.
Nisei Radicals by Diane C. Fujino. 2020.
Articulate Silences, by King-Kok Cheung. 1993.
Ok, that’s just stuff off my bookshelf and by no means a comprehensive list. If you have your own book recommendations, please feel free to add them to this thread too.
From @spamfriedrice:
Click through the rest of @spamfriedrice’s tweets for more recommendations.
Ok, finally had a chance to thread in more of @spamfriedrice’s reccs:
From @asapmonny:
Also of course from @cathyparkhong, recommended by @roselonghurst
Recc by @yinbk
Recc by @einmayorga

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21 Mar
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It’s a trope-y term I’ve never loved, but yes it is real.
It was coined in 2005 to describe the very real professional exclusion of Asian Americans from upper management, based on stereotypes of Asian Americans as uncreative, stoic, and poor managers/leaders.
The term has its problems, not the least of which that it feels both Orientalist and East Asian specific.

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I perpetually get so much mileage out of this post:

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The earliest modern Asian American Movement involved student activists working with other students of color and especially Black students in a collective fight for Black and other ethnic studies.
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A lot of this work was being done when AsAm discourse was still niche, and virality and influencer culture wasn’t really a thing. We were filling a void utterly absent in mainstream media by effectively creating our very own, community-driven alt AsAm media sphere.
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