New Books in Asian American Studies
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Interviews with Scholars of Asian America about their New Books
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Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Memory
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Tracy Pintchman, "Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, "Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Christopher T. Fan, "Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Sorayya Khan, "We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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J. Megan Greene, "Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Rachel Khong, "Real Americans" (Knopf, 2024)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Gina Chung, "Green Frog: Stories" (Vintage, 2024)
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Translator's Daughter: A Discussion with Grace Loh Prasad
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May 23, 2024 |
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Tessa Winkelmann, "Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2024 |
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Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Catherine Ceniza Choy, "Asian American Histories of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Michael Liu, "Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Amanda Mei Kim, "California Obscura," The Common magazine (2023)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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SunAh M. Laybourn, "Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Zhongping Chen, "Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Mimi Khúc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Wendy Cheng, "Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Brown and Gay in LA and the Craft of Writing Nonfiction
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Meredith Oda, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Kimberly D. McKee, "Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Kawika Guillermo on "Nimrods" and Y-Dang Troeung's "Landbridge"
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Chrissy Yee Lau, "New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Shezan Muhammedi, "Gifts from Amin: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada" (U of Manitoba Press, 2022)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Allan Punzalan Isaac, "Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor" (Fordham UP, 2021)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Nishanth Injam, "The Best Possible Experience: Stories" (Pantheon, 2023)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Juliana Hu Pegues, "Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Michael R. Jin, "Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Charlotte Brooks, "American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949" (U California Press, 2019)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jason Chang et al., "The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom" (PM Press, 2022)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Shortage
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Moon-Ho Jung, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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James Kyung-Jin Lee, "Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Ma Vang, "History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies" (Duke UP, 2021)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Yu Tokunaga, "Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Hua Hsu, "Stay True: A Memoir" (Doubleday, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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May-lee Chai, "Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories" (Blair, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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A. Carly Buxton, "Un-Thinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Reckoning with the Interdiscipline
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, "Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Mark T. Johnson, "The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana" (U of Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Lisa Uperesa, "Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Victoria Reyes, "Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Jeannie N. Shinozuka, "Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Gish Jen, "Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories" (Knopf, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Helen Jin Kim, "Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Min Hyoung Song, "Climate Lyricism" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Elena Tajima Creef, "Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Nadia Y. Kim, "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Sarah Deutsch, "Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two
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May 25, 2022 |
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Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Alvin Eng, "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (Fordham UP, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Kenny Xu, "An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy" (Diversion Book, 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Christian Dyogi Phillips, "Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Elaine Hsieh Chou, "Disorientation: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Sunny Xiang, "Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Andy Choi, "Slow Hot" (Schism Press, 2021)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Farha Bano Ternikar, "Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Albert Samaha, "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes" (Penguin, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, "The Sixteen-Dollar Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Efrén O. Pérez, "Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Chia-Rong Wu, "Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Murray Hogben, "Minarets on the Horizon: Muslim Pioneers in Canada" (Mawenzi House, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Chenxing Han, "Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Yoosun Park, "Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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AAAS Book Awards Part 4: Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Pornsak Pichetshote, "The Good Asian, Volume 1" (Image Comics, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Richard Alba, "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Annelise Heinz, "Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Margaret Magat, "Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le
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May 18, 2021 |
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K. Kale Yu, "Understanding Korean Christianity: Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses" (Pickwick, 2019)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Gordon H. Chang, "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" (HMH, 2019)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Pandemic Perspectives from a Recent College Graduate: A Discussion with Amy Sumerfield
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America" (Atria, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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erin Khuê Ninh, "#WeToo Reader" (JAAS, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America" (Atria, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy: A Discussion with Michael Hanchard
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Tara Fickle, "The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Clara Han, "Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (Catapult, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Joel S. Franks, "Asian American Basketball: A Century of Sport, Community and Culture" (McFarland, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War"(Duke UP, 2019)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife" (Michigan UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965" (Norton, 2020)
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May 14, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora" (Routledge, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books, 2019)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Iyko Day, "Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Ivan V. Small, "Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of Race" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 22, 2019 |
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education" (Teachers College Press, 2015)
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May 13, 2019 |
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Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in North America" (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard UP, 2019
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Ana Paulina Lee, "Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Connie Chiang, “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Janelle Wong, “Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines” (Duke UP,
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Kawika Guillermo, “Stamped: An Anti-Travel Novel” (Westphalia Press, 2018)
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Lily Wong, “Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness” (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” (U Washington Press, 2017)
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Mary-Kim Arnold, “Litany for the Long Moment” (Essay Press, 2018)
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Lon Kurashige, “Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States” (U North Carolina Press, 2016)
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Amy Sueyoshi, “Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American ‘Oriental'” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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Beth Lew-Williams, “The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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May 28, 2018 |
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Simeon Man, “Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific” (U California Press, 2018)
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May 25, 2018 |
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David Atkinson, “The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Allison Varzally, “Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Julian Lim, “Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Mark Padoongpatt, “Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America” (U of California Press, 2017)
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Harrod Suarez, “The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Nicholas Trajano Molnar, “American Mestizos, the Philippines, and the Malleability of Race, 1898-1961” (U Missouri Press, 2017)
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Angela Davis-Gardner, “Butterfly’s Child” (Random House, 2011)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Jason Oliver Chang, “Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Eric J. Pido, “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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Ellen Eisenberg, “The First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII” (Lexington Books, 2008)
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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Richard Jean So, “Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network” (Columbia University Press, 2016)
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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Mary Chapman, “Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing of Edith Maude Eaton” (McGill-Queens UP, 2016)
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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Eric Tang, “Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto” (Temple UP, 2015)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Edlie Wong, “Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Eubanks, Abel and Chen, eds., “Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1.2: Collecting Asias” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Christine Hong, “Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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Dec 12, 2015 |
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Grace Wang, “Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race Through Musical Performance”
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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Madeline Y. Hsu, “The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Simon C. Kim, “Memory and Honor” (Liturgical Press, 2013)
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May 05, 2015 |
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Wen Jin, “Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms” (Ohio State University Press, 2012)
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos, “Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America” (Oxford UP 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Sean Metzger, “Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race” (Indiana UP, 2014)
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Dec 28, 2014 |
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Denise Cruz, “Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina” (Duke UP, 2012)
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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Vernadette V. Gonzalez, “Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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Albert Park and David Yoo, eds., “Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America” (University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
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Sep 10, 2014 |
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Martin Joseph Ponce, “Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading” (NYU Press, 2012)
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Jul 22, 2014 |
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Leilani Nishime, “Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture” (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
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Jun 16, 2014 |
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Emma Teng, “Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Feb 23, 2014 |
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Ellen D. Wu, “The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Feb 17, 2014 |
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Thuy Linh Tu, “The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion” (Duke UP, 2010)
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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Rick Baldoz, “The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946” (NYU Press, 2011)
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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Erin Khue Ninh, “Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature” (NYU Press, 2011)
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Jan 06, 2014 |
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Julia H. Lee, “Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937” (NYU Press, 2011)
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Dec 18, 2013 |
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Nicholas Hartlep, “The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success” (Information Age, 2013)
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Nov 21, 2013 |
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Robyn Rodriguez, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
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Oct 30, 2013 |
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Dawn B. Mabalon, “Little Manila is in the Heart” (Duke UP, 2013)
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Oct 24, 2013 |