2022 ALA Youth Media Awards

Winners and Honor books for the 2022 awards
 

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1. From a whisper to a rallying cry: the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

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Author:
Yoo, Paula
Notes:
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honor book
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult Non-Fiction
YA305.895 YOO
North Regional - Young Adult Non-Fiction
YA305.895 YOO
Northeast Regional - Young Adult Non-Fiction
YA305.895 YOO
Description:
"A portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald...