Spring Book Discussion: I-Hotel by Karen Tei-Yamashita

Dinner afterwards at the Japanese restaurant Octopus. (375 W. Birch St. Brea) at 5:30. Meet us for the book discussion and/or dinner. Either one or both!

If you're planning on going to the dinner, please RSVP by contacting Karyn Nguyen at KNguyen1@fullcoll.edu (Ext. 27254) or Jane Ishibashi at jishibashi@fullcoll.edu (Ext. 27378).

Book Discussion

Date: Feb. 23rd, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: Library 2nd floor/Conference room 820-P


The Spring 2012 Book discussion will be on I-Hotel by Karen Tei-Yamashita. We will be discussing:

Chapters 1 and 2 from the section titled (1969: I Spy Hotel). The page numbers are 117-164


2010 National Book Award Finalist
2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book Award Winner in Adult Fiction
2010 California Book Award Winner

"The International Hotel, or I Hotel, was an actual San Francisco landmark, the base for a wild array of pan-Asian artistic, political, and community endeavors. And now this “fortress” and “beacon” provides the impetus and structure for Yamashita's exuberant, irreverent, passionately researched, and many-voiced novel about the Yellow Power movement. Author of the indelible Tropic of Orange (1997), Yamashita nets the social and personal ferment of the years 1968 through 1977 in 10 interconnected, stylistically varied segments. As this jazzy, kaleidoscopic novel unfolds, we meet orphaned teenager Paul and his mentor Chen, a radical professor; Mo Akagi, a Yellow Panther; Gerald, an avant-garde saxophonist; Sandy Hu, an innovative choreographer; and all kinds of gutsy and inventive activists, some in wheelchairs, who comprise a broad spectrum of courageous Asian Americans asserting their rights." From Booklist by Donna Seaman

Dinner: Japanese restaurant Octopus. (375 W. Birch St. Brea) at 5:30.

Book Discussion March 14th

Larry Hashima (Ethnic Studies) will be leading the discussion about the book, I Love Yous are for White People by Lac Su.

As a young boy, Lac Su escaped from the Communists in Vietnam. Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to Los Angeles where poverty, cultural barriers, and a harsh, unrelenting father led him to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to destroy his chances at the American Dream.

Date: March 14th, 2011
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Location: 820p Library 2nd floor

Come to the book discussion then dinner! Or discussion only or dinner only!

Dinner afterwards at 6:15 pm:
Pho Ha
Brea Plaza Shopping Ctr
1619 E Imperial Hwy
Brea, CA 92823
(714) 255-9899

RSVP Annie Liu at aliu@fullcoll.edu

Book Discussion

The first book discussion was well-attended with students from Eufemio Fernandez's Ethnic Studies class. Larry Hashima led the discussion about The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism and the time flew by! Afterwards, a few of us went out for Korean food. Delicious!

The next book will be I Love Yous are for White People by Lac Su.

Book Discussion and Dinner

The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
by Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 13th, 2010
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm (dinner at a local Korean restaurant afterward, optional. See below for info)
Location: Library 800 Building, 820P

Join us for the book discussion led by Larry Hashima, Ethnic Studies professor at Fullerton College and Cal State Long Beach. In this book sociologists Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin examine racial stereotyping and discrimination faced by Asian Americans long viewed by whites as the model minority. One copy of this book is available in the Reserve section of the library. This activity can count as flex!

At about 6:15, we will be meeting at a local Korean restaurant for dinner. Come to the book discussion and dinner Or either one if you can't make both! Please RSVP Karyn Nguyen at KNguyen1@fullcoll.edu

The dinner will be at: KOBA Tofu Grill on 1993 B West Malvern Ave. in Fullerton.

Corner of Gilbert & Malvern

Tel. (714) 879-5500