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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Find library resources that support DEIB efforts on campus and the community.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Every year, May is celebrated as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The celebration was officially recognized in 1978 to honor the contributions and experiences of the AAPI community.

Books

Cover art of Drawn together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
Cover art of Eyes that kiss in the corners by Joanna Ho and Dung Ho
Cover art of Makaha by Robert Goodman and Robert Spicer
Cover art of Apple pie 4th of July by Janet S Wong and Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Cover art of A Sweet New Year for Ren by Michelle Sterling
Cover art of A different pond by Bao Phi and Thi Bui
Cover art of The wheels on the tuk tuk by Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehgal and Jess Golden.
Cover art of When you trap a tiger by Tae Keller
Cover art of Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim
Cover art of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Cover art of Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean
Cover art of Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Cover art of How to live safely in a science fictional universe by Charles Yu
Cover art of Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Cover art of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
Cover art of Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
Cover art of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Cover art of Honolulu by Alan Brennert
Cover art of The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Cover art of The best we could do : an illustrated memoir by Thi Bui
Cover art of We hereby refuse : Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration by  Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura and Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki
Cover art of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott
Cover art of What my bones know : a memoir of healing from complex trauma by Stephanie Foo
Cover art of Rise : a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now by Jeff Yang and Phil Yu and Philip Wang and Julia Kuo
Cover art of The loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
Cover art of Year of the tiger : an activist's life by Alice Wong
Cover art of Pacific worlds : a history of seas, peoples, and cultures by Matt K. Matsuda
Cover art of Stealing Buddha's dinner : a memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen
Cover art of The making of Asian America : a history by Erika Lee
Cover art of The betrayal of Liliuokalani, last Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917 by  Helena G. Allen
Cover art of The Asian American : the historical experience by Norris Hundley Jr.
Cover art of Relocating Authority : Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration by Mira Shimabukuro
Cover art of Un-American : the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
Cover art of Island world : a history of Hawai'i and the United States by Gary Y. Okihiro
Cover art of The island edge of America : a political history of Hawai'I by Tom Coffman
Cover art of Lost kingdom : Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure by Julia Flynn Siler
Cover art of From a native daughter : colonialism and sovereignty in Hawaiʻi by Haunani-Kay Trask
Cover art of Aloha betrayed : native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
Cover art of Dismembering lāhui : a history of the Hawaiian nation to 1887 by Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio
Cover art of On Gold Mountain : the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family by Lisa See

These books are available for checkout from the Bay College Library. Click on the image to view the library's catalog.