[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....
[Chinese American] Chinese American family photo album, mid-20th century, recording the Chinese American diaspora in California and Oragon during the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws and the expansion of immigration policy in the United States. The album captures a period of social mobility among Chinese Americans in.....
[Japanese American] [Pre-WWII] [California] [Nisei] Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Los Angeles convention photographs and personal portraits, 1930s, document organized Japanese American civic life, public representation, and community identity formation in pre-WWII Southern California. There are some images annotated with dates September 2nd and 3rd, 1938, recording the 5th JACL.....
Japanese American photograph archive documents everyday life, social identity, and community formation on the West Coast prior to World War II and the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans beginning in 1942. Dating from the 1920s to 1932, these images provide primary visual evidence of leisure, fashion, and interpersonal relationships within.....
Tales of the Closet no. 1, 4, 5, and 6, four issues from Ivan Velez Jr.'s Hetrick-Martin Institute comic series for lesbian and gay youth suicide prevention, traces queer adolescence in Queens through named characters including Tony Vega, Ramona Sinclair, Mary Ryan, Kyle Hooks, Shorty Mancini, Scott Lind, Jenny Chin.....
Archive of identified Japanese American wedding photographs documenting postwar Nikkei community life and the rebuilding of Japanese American social and commercial institutions in Northern California during the early 1950s. The material captures formal wedding celebrations and social relationships within Japanese American communities during the years following World War II incarceration.....
[Asian-American] Combat Ethnic Weapons, vol. 1, no. 1. San Francisco: Coaltion Opposed to Medical and Biological Attack. 1971. Measures 11.5" x 7.5". Tabloid format newspaper. 12 pages. Created by the Asian Coalition in Opposition to Chemical and Biological Warfare and its application in Vietnam. Authors speculate that the U.S. military.....
[Asian American] [Labor] Cabezas, Amado Y., and Harold T. Yee. Discriminatory Employment of Asian Americans: Private Industry in the San Francisco–Oakland SMSA. San Francisco: ASIAN, Inc., July 4, 1977. First edition. Scarce. 350+ pages. Original printed tan and brown cardstock wrappers. 4to. A foundational civil rights study addressing systemic racial.....
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Asian Americans: A Success Story? (1973) constitutes an early academic challenge to the “model minority” framework applied to Asian Americans in the post–Civil Rights United States. Published as a special issue of The Journal of Social Issues, the volume supports research into.....
