catching up... (1-18)

[littlebutfierce]

I used to be so diligent about posting here, alas! My reviews have gotten shorter, too. But seeing all the new folks joining & everyone posting their reads has inspired me to try to catch up! Here's what I've read since I finished the challenge last year (using IBARW as my deadline). Links go to my reading journal.

Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity & the Cultural Politics of Space - Rick Bonus

America Is in the Heart - Carlos Bulosan

Racing the Dark - Alaya Dawn Johnson

Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women - Edited by Elaine H. Kim, Lilia V. Villanueva, and Asian Women United of California

Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America - Edited by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara

Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear - Bruce A. Jacobs

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White - Frank H. Wu

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam - Edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Waiting to Be Heard: Youth Speak Out about Inheriting a Violent World - The Students of San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School

The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats - Joanne Chen

The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking - Simon Singh

A Century of Migration (Bristol's Asian Communities) - Munawar Hussain

Chinatown Beat - Henry Chang

Stuffed & Starved: From Farm to Fork, the Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel

Kin: New Fiction by Black and Asian Women - Edited by Karen McCarthy

Women, Race & Class - Angela Davis

From Outside In: Refugees and British Society - Edited by Nushin Arbabzadah

Comments

[rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com]

My heart jumped when I saw Carlos Bulosan's name on the list. Are you by any chance Filipino?

[littlebutfierce]

I'm half-Filipina (-American; I always feel the need to follow that up by saying my Tagalog is terrible, nearly nonexistent, sigh).

[sanguinity]

*swoon* Those tags are beautiful. Right down to noticing that we're not yet being consistent about hyphens. I wish I had a prize handy, because I'd give it to you. :-D

But speaking of hyphens, I'm in the process of standardizing all the dual-part ethnicity+nationality tags to using hyphens (for no reasons other than having a standard is simpler, and hyphens make the tag list more comprehensible). So if you committed a memory-slot to the trivia that "filipino american" didn't have a hyphen while "asian-american" did, it's in the process of becoming outdated information.

[littlebutfierce]

Hehehe, thanks! I will keep an eye out for the hyphens now--I agree that hyphens make the tag cloud more readable.