May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
As you can imagine, Asian Pacific American covers a fair
amount of area. An Asian Pacific American is an American (whether born,
naturalized, or other) who was born on or has heritage from anywhere on the
Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New
Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam,
Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States
of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands,
Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter
Island). These areas cover a wide array of languages, cultures, religions, and ethnicities
that have brought countless skills, hopes and dreams to the United StatesClick Keep Reading to see the full list, descriptions, and
catalog links for the 20 titles by or about Asian Pacific Americans suggested
by UCF Library employees. These, and additional titles, are also on the Featured Bookshelf display on the second (main) floor next to the bank of two elevators.