Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

6 best books like Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Martin F. Manalansan IV): American Knees, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory, Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe

American Knees

Author

Shawn Wong

Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...

The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

Author	Larry Gonick
ISBN	0393324036

An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

Author	Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
ISBN	0472086375

Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Author	Silvia Federici
ISBN	1570270597

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory

Author	Michael Warner
ISBN	0816623341

i'm not really sure i got a whole lot from this collection of essays in that it didn't broaden my horizons or challenge the way i think about things. i imagine it was pretty groundbreaking in 1993, but read today, a lot of the evisceration of popular theory (particularly in the fuss and sedgwick essays)...

Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe

Author	Doreen Baingana
ISBN	0767925106

In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin's dictatorship.

Three...