ODU Libraries offer a curated virtual book display to the Monarch community as we recognize Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month this May!
Engage with the diverse histories, cultures, and stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. This digital and physical collection includes literature, academic research, films, and more representing AAPI voices across generations.
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by 
But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise: New Asian American Plays by 
Contemporary Chinese America by 
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by 
The Making of Asian America by
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by 
Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse by 
Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History by 
Remapping Asian American History by 
The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America by 
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by 
Yellowface by 
25 Events That Shaped Asian American History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic by 
Giving Back: Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving by 
Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations by 
Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity by 
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by 
Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion by 
The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America by 
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by 
Writing Against Racial Injury: The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric by 
