Civic Engagement, Contested Issues, and Emerging Identities
James S. Lai
Examines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politics
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 tables, 8 figures, 11 halftones
Bridging Institutions and Identities
Yen Le Espiritu
A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage
238 pages
| 6 x 9
U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan
Malini Johar Schueller
Making visible the afterlives of U.S. colonial and occupation tutelage in the Philippines and Japan
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 line drawings, 1 halftone
The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave
Min Zhou
Ethnic enclaves as an alternative means of incorporation into the larger society
316 pages
| 6 x 9
Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era
Edited by K. Scott Wong, and Sucheng Chan
A collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity
226 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 tables
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Lisa Yun
A remarkable examination of bondage in Cuba that probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 tables, 3 figures, 1 halftone
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Anita Mannur
An exploration of how and why food matters in the culture and literature of the South Asian diaspora
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 9 figures, 1 halftone
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
Edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV
Essays by ethnographers researching their own ethnic groups
272 pages
| 7 x 10
| 1 table, 5 figures
Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
Sunaina Marr Maira
Making the desi scene in New York
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 16 halftones
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
Timothy P. Fong
Ethnicity issues fuel internal strife as a community faces change
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 14 tables, 2 figures, 8 halftones
A Memoir
May-lee Chai
A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota
232 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 12 halftones
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Bindi Shah
How environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American women
216 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table
The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
Edited by Rocío G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee
Form as function in Asian American literature
248 pages
| 6 x 9
Brooklyn's Sunset Park
Tarry Hum
How immigrants are reinventing Sunset Park, forming new multi-racial alliances, and reshaping its community
300 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 7 halftones, 1 maps
Pei-te Lien
A fascinating look at how race ethnicity and transnationalism help construct a complex American electorate
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 21 tables
Linda Trinh Võ
304 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 tables, 4 figures, 4 maps
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Mari Yoshihara
Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?
288 pages
| 6 x 9
| 18 halftones
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
Jere Takahashi
A fresh look at the many and diverse political strategies that forged a Japanese American identity
280 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 tables
Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures
Erin Suzuki
Comparing and contrasting the diverse experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander subjectivities across a shared sea
268 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 halftone
The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942
Chris Friday
Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 tables, 6 halftones
Asian Americans in Popular Culture
Robert G. Lee
A compelling study of how the label "oriental" came into being
288 pages
| 6 x 9
One Man's Story
Tung Pok Chin, with Winifred C. Chin
A rare, first person account of an experience shared by thousands of Chinese
184 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 16 halftones
Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
James Kyung-Jin Lee
What happens when illness betrays Asian American fantasies of indefinite progress?
224 pages
| 6 x 9
Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage
Josephine Lee
A fascinating inquiry into the territory of race and ethnicity in American theater
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 21 halftones
Dialectics of Philippines-U.S. Literary Relations
E. San Juan Jr.
A passionate discussion of the history of oppositional writing in the Philippines
320 pages
| 6 x 9
Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California
John Horton
In an era of thriving anti-immigrant sentiments, this story of Monterey Park, California demonstrates how long-time residents and new immigrants deal with commonality as well as diversity
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 13 tables, 19 halftones, 3 maps
Queer in Asian America
Edited by David L. Eng, and Alice Y. Hom
A spirited collection of essays, personal testimonies, fiction, and art on what it means to be queer in Asian-America now
445 pages
| 7 x 10
The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia
Y-Dang Troeung
Exploring key works that have emerged out of the Cambodian refugee archive
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 28 color photos, 6 halftones
Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
Masumi Izumi
Now in Paperback—Dissecting the complex relationship among race, national security, and civil liberties in “the age of American concentration camps”
268 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 halftones
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging
198 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience
Adelaida Reyes
Viewing the Vietnamese refugee experience through its music
248 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 tables, 6 figures, 12 halftones
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
Priya Srinivasan
Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labor highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship
238 pages
| 6 x 9
| 6 halftones
The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York
Renqiu Yu
Chinese laundry workers unite to fight racism and economic discrimination
253 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 figs.
Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas
Quynh Nhu Le
Illuminates the intersecting logics of settler colonialism and racialization through analysis of contemporary Asian and Indigenous crossings in the Américas
250 pages
| 6 x 9
South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
Rajini Srikanth
Literature that takes us beyond identity to empathy
304 pages
| 6 x 9