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BLS Library Digital Book Displays: Current Display: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 2025)

Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 2025) - Focus on BLS Alumni

Recent Event at NYPL's Hudson Park Library: "Chinese Immigrant Women: How They Fared While Chasing the American Dream" - Art Presentation and Panel Discussion with Painter and Labor Lawyer Siyan Wong

Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 2025) - Explore BLS Library's Books

American Flygirl (2025)

Excerpt from ebook's description: "In 1931, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots."

Asian Americans and U.S. Law (Jan. 2023)

Open access casebook available @ H2O.
Description: "An examination of Asian American jurisprudence, focusing on anti-Asian sentiment in the late 19th century and early 20th century, discrimination against and internment of Japanese Americans surrounding World War II, and continued discrimination post-1965."

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013)

For information about the film In Search of Bengali Harlem (2022), see: http://bengaliharlem.com/thedocumentary

Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story (2021)

Memoir by U.S. Senator and attorney Mazie K. Hirono.

Monkey Bridge (1997)

Novelist and professor Lan Cao formerly taught at Brooklyn Law School.

Our Place in History: Ten Milestones in the Fight for Asian American Rights [forthcoming]

BLS Library's team is tracking future availability of this forthcoming book by attorney, educator, and founding director of the Asian American Justice Center Phil Tajitsu Nash.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 2025) - Additional Resources