The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race
9 best books like The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (Anthony Christian Ocampo): Patron Saints of Nothing, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents, Taipei, Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall....
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
| Author | Jia Tolentino |
| ISBN | 0525510540 |
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
| Author | Emily Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0525508961 |
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0743456084 |
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express...
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0544938321 |
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.
Understanding someone who belongs to another...
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
| Author | Jimmy O. Yang |
| ISBN | 0306903490 |
Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I...
| Author | Tao Lin |
| ISBN | 0307950174 |
Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into...
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Tey Meadow |
| ISBN | 0520275047 |
Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
| Author | Jose Antonio Vargas |
| ISBN | 0062851365 |
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at...
