INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 *
Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award Hip entertaining...imaginative.?Kirkus starred
review * Essential. ?Min Jin Lee * A Herculean effort.?Lisa Ling * A must-read.?Ijeoma Oluo *
Get two copies.?Shea Serrano * A bo2ok we've needed for ages. ?Celeste Ng * Accessible
informative and fun. ?Cathy Park Hong * This book has serious substance...Also I'm in
it.?Ronny Chieng RISE is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook of voices
emotions and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed and a way
to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community
into who we are today. When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965 opening up US immigration to
non-Europeans it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation of Asian
Americans born in the US after that milestone it would have been impossible to imagine that
sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all that a Korean boy band named BTS would be the
biggest musical act in the world that one of the most acclaimed and popular movies of 2018
would be Crazy Rich Asians or that we would have an Asian American Vice President. And that's
not even mentioning the creators performers entrepreneurs execs and influencers who've been
making all this happen behind the scenes and on the screen or the activists and
representatives continuing to fight for equity building coalitions and defiantly holding space
for our voices and concerns. And still: Asian America is just getting started. The timing could
not be better for this intimate eye-opening and frequently hilarious guided tour through the
pop-cultural touchstones and sociopolitical shifts of the 1990s 2000s 2010s and beyond. Jeff
Yang Phil Yu and Philip Wang chronicle how we've arrived at today's unprecedented diversity
of Asian American cultural representation through engaging interactive infographics (including
a step-by-step guide to a night out in K-Town an atlas that unearths historic Asian American
landmarks a handy ?Appreciation or Appropriation?? flowchart and visual celebrations of both
our founding fathers and mothers and the nostalgia-inducing personalities of each decade) plus
illustrations and graphic essays from major AAPI artists exclusive roundtables with Asian
American cultural icons and more anchored by extended insider narratives of each decade by
the three co-authors. Rise is an informative lively and inclusive celebration of both shared
experiences and singular moments and all the different ways in which we have chosen to come
together.
