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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Told with stark and poetic brilliance, this is a…

Filipino Women in Detroit: 1945-1955

Oral Histories from the Filipino American Oral History Project of Michigan. The book examines three Filipina American women, Tomasa Balberona, Rosalina Regala, and Isabel Galura, as they recount the challenges they faced after moving to the U.S. from…

Detained

Detained is a comic book that explores immigrant detention centers in Washington State. Each side of the book is a continuous panorama depicting the interior of Seattle's former INS building and the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The book…

Vis Major: Railroad Men, and Act of God-White Death at Wellington

At 1:43 a.m., March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington. Ninety-six people died in a single moment. To this day, the Wellington Slide remains North America's worst…

Knowing Your Place: Issei Artists in Seattle, Kenjiro Nomura, Kamekichi Tokita, and Takuichi Fujii

Dissertation - for staff use only Seattle Japanese American artists Kenjiro Nomura, Kamekichi Tokita, Takuichi Fujii

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