A review by dkai
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Philip Wang, Jeff Yang, Phil Yu

5.0

There are plenty of nitpicks one could have (most of which probably stem from having three east Asian men as the curators), but overall the book does a great job at what it sets out to do: providing an overview of mainstream Asian American cultural history by decade in an engaging way. The way it is broken up into bite size pieces (e.g. interviews, comics, charts, essays) made it a perfect breakfast/snack read for me (and kept it engaging - looking at you, art history textbooks). Handy reference material to keep around that can also inspire deeper looks into its many subjects.