AALAM Book Club: Asian American Dreams

The AALAM Book Club's third book will be Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia.

“This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans.”

If you are interested in receiving a copy of this book for the book club, please sign up here by Friday November 21st: https://aalam.wildapricot.org/event-6438699

Members of AALAM can sign-up for $5 and Non-Members for $10. This fee goes towards us shipping a brand new copy of the book to your door.

As part of the Book Club, there will be one ~1 hour virtual book discussion with AALAM members. The discussion will likely be in early February, so you will have over two months to read the book. If you're looking to get your holiday reading started, sign up!

Discussion questions will be sent out in advance to facilitate discussion. Upon signing up, you must provide your correct home address so we can send the book to your address. Please double check before submitting.

Please only sign-up for a book if you plan on attending a virtual AALAM discussion of the book in early February.

Note that we understand this is a popular book, so you might not need a new copy. We will send a link to coordinate the virtual discussion to all of AALAM, so those who have read the book before can join in the discussion.