Asian American Studies: a Guide to Information Resources: Biography

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California.

San Francisco : City Lights Publishers. 2019
Brandon Shimoda created a portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life—child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen—mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the twentieth century.

In 1965, Patsy Mink became the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States Congress. Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority looks at Mink's remarkable political journey, while often lonely and tumultuous, as she fought for the most disenfranchised and forgotten in society.

Washington, DC : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2017.

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. 2010
In this 1950 memoir, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Panlilio narrates her experience as a journalist, triple agent, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V. Augustin.