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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play. So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, she's thrilled...until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because it's an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success they'll let her have--one that they can tear down or use race to belittle? Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what she's made of"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement.By Yoo, Paula[2021]., General, Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 305.8 YOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese American man--beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage in the Asian American community"--
