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Hunger, by Lan Samantha Chang.  Raynor Memorial Libraries offer this selected reading list in support of the 2006 First Year Reading selection. Subject headings are appended to each section to help identify additional resources.

Readers are advised to check MARQCAT for circulation status and location as items may be in the Browsing Collection (Raynor 1st level), Raynor Reserves/AV (lower level), or in the Memorial stacks.   Books that are checked out may be reserved by clicking on the blue button at the top or bottom of the MARQCAT record.


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Nonfiction about Chinese Americans

Becoming Asian American: second-generation Chinese and Korean American identities/Nazli Kibria (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) E184.C5 K45 2002

Becoming Chinese American: a history of communities and institutions. Him Mark Lai (AltaMira, 2004) E184.C5 L355 2004

Being Chinese, becoming Chinese American. Shehong Chen (University of Illinois Press, 2002) E184.C5 C466 2002

Chinese-Americans [videorecording]: living in two worlds (ABC News/Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001) E184.C5 C44 2001 (Raynor Reserves)

The Chinese in America: a narrative history. Iris Chang (Viking, 2003) E184.C5 C444 2003

Of orphans and warriors: inventing Chinese American culture and identity. Gloria Heyung Chun (Rutgers University Press, 2000) E184.C5 C56 2000

When East meets East [videorecording] A Calipix Production; produced, written and directed by Kalli Paakspuu (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2000) PN1995.9.C48 W44 2000

MARQCAT Subject Headings (to locate more books)
Chinese American Families
Chinese American Women Biography
Chinese Americans -- Cultural assimilation
China -- Emigration and Immigration
Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity
Chinese Americans -- History

Nonfiction--other immigrant groups

Blurred boundaries: migration, ethnicity, citizenship. Rainer Bauböck, John Rundell, eds. (Ashgate, 1998) GN495.6 .B58 1998

Crossing into America: the new literature of immigration / edited by Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar (New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2003) PS508.I45 C76 2003

Ethnicities: children of immigrants in America / edited by Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes (University of California Press; Russell Sage Foundation, 2001) E184.A1 E848 2001

Immigrant women tell their stories. Roni Berger (Haworth Press, 2004) HQ1154 .B4148 2004

Longing in belonging: the cultural politics of settlement. Suzan Ilcan (Praeger, 2002) HM841 .I53 2002

Migration and identity. Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes, eds. (Oxford University Press, 1994) JV6033 .M56 1994

Migration and immigration: a global view. Edited by Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea (Greenwood Press, 2004) JV603 .M54 2004

Migration: immigration and emigration in international perspective. Edited by Leonore Loeb Adler and Uwe P. Gielen (Praeger, 2003) JV6035 .M5415 2003

Suburban Sahibs: three immigrant families and their passage from India to America. S. Mitra Kalita (Rutgers University Press, 2003) F142.M6 K35 2003

Waking up American: coming of age biculturally: first-generation women reflect on identity / edited by Angela Jane Fountas (Seal Press, 2005) HQ792.U5 W34 2005

Who are my sisters and brothers? Reflections on understanding and welcoming immigrants and refugees (United States Catholic Conference, 1996) BX1795.E44 W46 1996

MARQCAT Subject Headings (to locate more books)
Acculturation
Biculturalism -- United States
Children of immigrants -- United States
Children of immigrants -- United States -- Family relationships
Emigration and Immigration
Emigration and immigration Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Immigrants

Fiction about immigrants

Boat people: a novel. Mary Gardner (University of Georgia Press, 1997) PS3557.A7142 B63 1997

The bonesetter's daughter. Amy Tan (G.P. Putnam's, 2001) PS3570.A48 B6 2001

Brick lane: a novel. Monica Ali (Scribner, 2003) PR6101.L45 B75 2003

Digging to America: a novel. Anne Tyler (Knopf Random House, 2006) PS3570.Y45 D47 2006

Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America. Firoozeh Dumas (Villard, 2003) E184.I5 D86 2003

Giants in the earth: a saga of the prairie. O. E. Rölvaag (Harper, 1927) PT9150.R55 I513 1927

Harbor. Lorraine Adams Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 2004) PS3601.D38 H37 2004

Her first American: a novel. Lore Segal (Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2004) PS3569.E425 H47 2004

The hiding place. Trezza Azzopardi (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000) PR6051.Z96 H53 2000

Inheritance. Lan Samantha Chang (W.W. Norton, 2004) PS3553.H2724 I54 2004

Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee (Grove Weidenfeld, 1989) PR9499.3.M77 J3 1989

Lucy. Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990) PR9275.A583 K5638 1990

Monkey king / Patricia Chao (HarperCollins Publishers, 1997) PS3553.H2765 M66 1997

My Ántonia. Willa Cather (University of Nebraska Press, 1994) PS3505.A87 M8 1994c

The namesake. Jhumpa Lahiri (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) PS3562.A316 N36 2003

Rachel Calof's story: Jewish homesteader on the Northern Plains (Indiana University Press, 1995) F645.J5 C353 1995

White teeth: a novel. Zadie Smith (Random House, 2000) PR6069.M59 W47 2000

The woman warrior; China men. Maxine Hong Kingston (Everyman's Library, 2005) E184.C5 K5 2005

MARQCAT Subject Headings (to locate more books)
Children of immigrants – Fiction
Chinese American women – Fiction
Chinese Americans – Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters – Fiction
Women -- China – Fiction
Women immigrants -- Fiction

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