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

5.0

Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Yang is an essential addition to your classroom. library, and home. It is engaging, informative, entertaining, eye-opening, filling a much needed gap on our shelves. Rise shares stories of Asian American pop culture through essays, timelines, lists, comics, graphs, illustrations, postcards from Asian America, roundtable conversations, incredible primary resources like photographs and firsthand accounts. I especially appreciate the Asian American Syllabus sections where the authors provide lists and analysis of must-consume media by decade. It is a powerful educational resource that I hope classroom teachers will utilize, whether you spotlight a specific essay or comic or adopt it as a class text. It is sure to inspire readers to dig deeper into the topics and explore other media that spotlights Asian American pop culture. Just behold that incredible table of contents! I kept thinking how valuable this book is to help implement lessons supporting the Illinois Teaching Equitable Asian American History or TEAACH Act. And also you can and should incorporate this history in your lessons or library without a law... A fantastic book for fans of NPR's Code Switch and Pop Culture Happy Hour, and of course, Throughline, this book is for everyone. I'd love to see this book on the Alex Award List and reach more young adult readers. It's definitely a book with lots of crossover appeal for teens and adults.