Award-Winning Books: Asian American Studies
Asian American Panethnicity
Bridging Institutions and Identities
238 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-096-5 $30.95 Feb 93
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0556-2 $30.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994
Chinatown
The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave
316 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-337-9 $34.95 Feb 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0417-6 $34.95 Feb 95
Honorable Mention, 1993 Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association
Claiming America
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era
226 pages
6 x 9
4 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-576-2 $31.95 Jan 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0770-2 $31.95 Jan 98
Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, 2001
The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
336 pages
6 x 9
6 tables, 3 figs., 1 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-582-0 $31.95 Feb 09
HC: 978-1-59213-581-3 $61.50 Feb 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-583-7 $31.95 Feb 08
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
272 pages
6 x 9
9 figs., 1 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0078-9 $31.95 Dec 09
HC: 978-1-4399-0077-2 $81.50 Dec 09
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0079-6 $31.95 Dec 09
Anita Mannur, recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Association for Asian American Studies
Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
272 pages
7 x 10
1 table 5 figures
PB: 978-1-56639-773-5 $33.95 Jun 00
HC: 978-1-56639-772-8 $88.50 Jun 00
Cultural Studies Book Award, given by the Association for Asian American Studies, 2000
Desis in the House
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
256 pages
6 x 9
16 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-927-2 $28.95 Feb 02
HC: 978-1-56639-926-5 $81.50 Feb 02
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0673-6 $28.95 Feb 02
Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association, 2003
The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
240 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 8 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-262-4 $35.95 Jul 94
HC: 978-1-56639-123-8 $85.50 Jan 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0463-3 $35.95
Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999
Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995
Hapa Girl
A Memoir
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
12 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-616-2 $26.95 Oct 08
HC: 978-1-59213-615-5 $66.50 Mar 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-617-9 $26.95 Mar 07
Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008
Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
216 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0815-0 $31.95 Dec 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0813-6 $91.50 Dec 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0814-3 $31.95 Dec 11
Association for Asian American Studies' Outstanding Book Award in the category Social Science, 2014
Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013
Literary Gestures
The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
248 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-365-9 $32.95 Nov 05
HC: 978-1-59213-364-2 $81.50 Nov 05
Ebook: 978-1-59213-366-6 $32.95 Nov 05
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2006
Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
Brooklyn's Sunset Park
300 pages
6 x 9
15 tables, 7 halftones, 1 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1091-7 $33.95 Jun 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1090-0 $90.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1092-4 $33.95 Jun 14
Honorable Mention from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's Paul Davidoff Award, 2015
The Making of Asian America through Political Participation
312 pages
6 x 9
21 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-895-4 $32.95 Sep 01
HC: 978-1-56639-894-7 $86.50 Sep 01
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0543-2 $32.95 Sep 01
Best Book published in the areas of Political Participation, Voting, Elections, and Political Behavior in Racial/Ethnic Politics by the Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political Science Association, 2002
Mobilizing an Asian American Community
304 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 4 figs., 4 maps
PB: 978-1-59213-262-1 $30.95 Jun 04
HC: 978-1-59213-261-4 $81.50 Jun 04
Social Science Book Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006
Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
280 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-659-2 $31.95 Jun 98
HC: 978-1-56639-550-2 $52.50 Nov 97
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997
Organizing Asian American Labor
The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
296 pages
6 x 9
6 tables, 6 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-398-0 $34.95 Aug 95
HC: 978-1-56639-139-9 $66.50 May 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0379-7 $34.95
Outstanding Book in History Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995
Orientals
Asian Americans in Popular Culture
288 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-753-7 $30.95 Apr 00
Best Book Award Winner Culture Studies/Popular Culture, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2000
Best Book Award for the Social Construction of Race, The American Political Science Association, 1999
Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies from the American Studies Association, 1999
Paper Son
One Man's Story
184 pages
5.5 x 8.25
16 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-801-5 $29.95 Oct 00
HC: 978-1-56639-800-8 $74.50 Oct 00
Ebook: 978-1-59213-812-8 $29.95 Oct 00
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2001
Performing Asian America
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
256 pages
6 x 9
21 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-637-0 $30.95 Mar 98
HC: 978-1-56639-502-1 $34.95 Feb 97
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0670-5 $30.95 Feb 97
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2016
The Philippine Temptation
Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations
320 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-418-5 $35.95 May 96
HC: 978-1-56639-417-8 $79.50 May 96
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1996
The Politics of Diversity
Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California
296 pages
6 x 9
13 tables, 19 halftones, 3 maps
PB: 978-1-56639-328-7 $30.95 Jul 95
HC: 978-1-56639-327-0 $69.95 Jul 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0642-2 $32.95
Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Section of the American Sociological Association, 1996
Q & A
Queer in Asian America
445 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-56639-640-0 $45.95 Aug 98
HC: 978-1-56639-639-4 $85.50 Aug 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1907-1 $45.95 Dec 18
Book Award from The Association for Asian American Studies, 2001
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Non-Fiction, 1998
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law
Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
270 pages
6 x 9
3 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1724-4 $69.50 Sep 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1726-8 $69.50 Sep 19
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020
Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
198 pages
5.5 x 8.5
HC: 978-1-4399-0130-4 $46.50 May 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0132-8 $46.50 May 10
Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, 2011
Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free
Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
248 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables, 6 figs., 12 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-686-8 $31.95 Jun 99
HC: 978-1-56639-685-1 $81.50 Jun 99
Book Award from the U.S. Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2000
Sweating Saris
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
238 pages
6 x 9
6 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0430-5 $31.95 Nov 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0429-9 $76.50 Nov 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0431-2 $31.95 Nov 11
Emory Elliott Book Award, 2012
To Save China, To Save Ourselves
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York
253 pages
6 x 9
8 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-395-9 $34.95 Sep 95
HC: 978-0-87722-996-4 $67.50 Oct 92
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0771-9 $34.95 Oct 92
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1993
Outstanding Book in History Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1993
Unsettled Solidarities
Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas
250 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1627-8 $39.95 Jun 19
HC: 978-1-4399-1626-1 $99.50 Jun 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1628-5 $39.95 Jun 19
Association for Asian American Studies' Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literary Studies Book Award, 2021
The World Next Door
South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
304 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-081-8 $29.95 Jul 04
Cultural Studies Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005
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