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by Amanda Newell on 2024-05-21T08:00:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

To celebrate AAPI month, check out some of our memoirs and biographies written by members of the AAPI community. 

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong is a memoir made up of a collection of Wong's essays and interviews, some previously published. Wong focuses on the challenges she has faced as a member of the disabled community living in a world built for able-bodied people. She also ties in her childhood as a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Wong became a disability rights activist and founded the Disability Visibility Project, whose mission is to amplify disabled artists and their works in media. 

They Called Us Exceptional and Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta is a memoir of Gupta coming to terms with the expectations of being an Indian American. The pressure from her family and society to be highly successful in school & work, while seemingly facing no hardships. Gupta tells her story of growing up with these expectations and finally breaking free from them at a great cost to the relationship with her family. 

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei is a graphic memoir of Takei's childhood. Takei and his family were sent to the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. This memoir focuses on his time in those camps and how it affected his life. 

The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang. Kang's memoir provides readers with a brief history lesson about the rise of Asian immigration into the States and how that has affected the demographics of America. Kang continues to illustrate his own experience of immigrating to America from South Korea as a child and moving around the country and balancing assimilation and integration of the two cultures. 

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