How Hollywood Treats Asian Actors
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They Called Us Enemy
- ASIN: 1603094504
- ISBN: 1603094504
- Manufacturer: Top Shelf Productions
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
- ASIN: 052550883X
- ISBN: 052550883X
- Manufacturer: Random House
Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad. In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month ... [Read More]
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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
- ASIN: 0813586291
- ISBN: 9780813586298
- Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of color, despite exhibiting talent and bankability, continue to lag behind white actors in presence and... [Read More]
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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- ASIN: 0393340392
- ISBN: 0393340392
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book and Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: "An ingenious and absorbing book…It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story." ―Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time)... [Read More]
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Why Am I Doing This?
- ASIN: B01ENGUCFO
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Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death
- ASIN: 0811717496
- ISBN: 0811717496
- Brand: STACKPOLE
- Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry SadlerThe top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t The Rolling Stones' “Paint It Black” or the Beatles' “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, U.S. Army Staf... [Read More]
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The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir
- ASIN: 1594482640
- ISBN: 9781594482649
- Brand: Riverhead Books
- Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician. Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West amba... [Read More]
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Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
- ASIN: 0822347997
- ISBN: 0822347997
- Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
- Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books
The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each ... [Read More]
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Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism
- ASIN: 0786419210
- ISBN: 9780786419210
- Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
From his primitive nonseries beginnings through the well known Fox series of 44 films (1931–1949), here is the complete history of famous film detective Charlie Chan. The films are presented in chronological order, with full cast and credits, synopses and evaluations. Biographical details on the three most famous screen Chans—Warner Oland, Sid... [Read More]
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Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sergeant Bob Slaughter
- UPC: 752748337343
- ASIN: 0760337349
- ISBN: 0760337349
- Brand: Brand: Zenith Press
- Manufacturer: Zenith Press
"Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the battlefield beside him." Belvoir Eagle Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment "Home Nannies" and "Weekend Warriors" and worse. On June 6, 194... [Read More]
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Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom
- ASIN: 0609608762
- ISBN: 0609608762
- Manufacturer: Harmony
Chasing Hepburn is the story of the Lee family—a saga spanning four generations, two continents, and a century and a half of Chinese history. In the masterful hands of acclaimed author Gus Lee, his ancestors’ stories spring vividly to life in a memoir with all the richness of great fiction. From the time of her birth in 1906 it was expected tha... [Read More]
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Bruce Lee: A Life
- ASIN: 1501187627
- ISBN: 1501187627
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate.” —The New York Times Book Review The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern an... [Read More]
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Swimming to Cambodia
- ASIN: 1559362545
- ISBN: 1559362545
- Brand: Gray, Spalding
- Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group
“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright.... [Read More]
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The Problem with Being Slightly Heroic
- ASIN: 1442423293
- ISBN: 9781442423299
- Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Dini is back from India—with Bollywood star Dolly in tow! But life in the States isn’t all rose petal milk shakes…Dini and Maddie, very best friends, are back in the same country at the same time! Better still, Dolly Singh, the starriest star in all of Bollywood, is in America too. Dini’s only just returned from India, and already life is s... [Read More]
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Dream Jungle
- ASIN: 0142001090
- ISBN: 0142001090
- Brand: Hagedorn, Jessica
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Jessica Hagedorn has received wide critical acclaim for her edgy, high-energy novels chronicling the clash and embrace of American and Filipino cultures. With Dream Jungle, she achieves a new level of narrative daring. Set in a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, Dream Jungle feverishly traces the consequences of two seemingly unr... [Read More]
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Modern House Decorations Martial Art Jeet Kune Do Founder Pictures for Bedroom Bruce Lee Artwork Multi Piece Prints Canvas Wall Art Dragon Painting Giclee Frame Stretched Ready to Hang(60''Wx40''H)
- ASIN: B07HSZN6NS
- Brand: Mookou
- Size: 60''Wx40''H
- Manufacturer: WhOops
Wall Decor Description:Bruce Lee,Chinese Name:Li Xiao Long A Fanous Hong Kong and American Actor Was born on November 27, 1940,a actor, film director, martial artist,philosopher.Lee had his first role as a baby who was carried onto the stage in the film Golden Gate Girl and begin his actor career. Lee began training in Wing Chun at 16 years old .Th... [Read More]
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Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography (Harlem Moon Classics)
- ASIN: 0767923863
- ISBN: 0767923863
- Brand: Holiday, Billie/ Dufty, William
- Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir. Updated with photos and with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David Ritz.Lady Sings the Blues is the fie... [Read More]
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The Dragon and the Tiger, Volume 2: The Untold Story of Jun Fan Gung-fu and James Yimm Lee
- ASIN: 1583941185
- ISBN: 1583941185
- Brand: Brand: Blue Snake Books
- Manufacturer: Blue Snake Books
Although the time Bruce Lee spent in Oakland, California is often treated as a mere footnote on his path to stardom, these years had a substantial impact on the martial artist and man he would become. After many years of research, authors Sid Campbell and Greglon Yimm Lee (son of James Yimm Lee) continue their fascinating, up-close description of B... [Read More]
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Bruce Lee Words of the Dragon: Interviews and Conversations 1958-1973
- ASIN: 0804850003
- ISBN: 0804850003
- Brand: Tuttle Publishing
- Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
Words of the Dragon is an anthology of newspaper and magazine interviews from 1958 to 1973 revealing Bruce Lee's own fascinating words and explanations about Bruce himself, his art and philosophy.Interesting and insightful, Words of the Dragon provides the reader a means to understand the real Bruce Lee, offering us a unique keyhole through which t... [Read More]
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Following Foo: (the electronic adventures of The Chestnut Man)
- ASIN: 0060529539
- ISBN: 0060529539
- Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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