New Books in Asian American Studies
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Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Spe...
Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...
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Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives ...
Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads...
Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
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Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of ...
While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.
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Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and...
Long T. Bui examines the complicated relationship between the Vietnamese diasporic community and its home country, the former South Vietnam...
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Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness...
In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...
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Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
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Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Fa...
American Sutra is also an inspiring account of how Japanese-Americans embodied faith, ingenuity and sacrifice in the face of great adversity...
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Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Tra...
This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...
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Ana Paulina Lee, "Mandarin Brazil: Race, Repres...
In her new book, Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press, 2018), Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University) analyzes representations of the Chinese in Brazilian culture...
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Loc...
Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...
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Noenoe K. Silva, "Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstruct...
The process of colonialism seeks to demean Indigenous intellect and destroy Indigenous literary traditions...
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Connie Chiang, “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An E...
The history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II is a well-known topic in American history and has been the subject of countess books and articles. In Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarc...
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Janelle Wong, “Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Po...
Surprising to many, white Evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election at a higher rate than any candidate in the previous four presidential elections. At the same time, the Evangelical community is changing,
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Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Cent...
Jan M. Padios‘ new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on the industry of offshore call centers in the Philippines, and attempts to understand the narratives cast...
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Kawika Guillermo, “Stamped: An Anti-Travel Nove...
Today I talked with Kawika Guillermo, a creative scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Social Justice Institute. His book Stamped: An Anti-Travel Novel (Westphalia Press, 2018) describes Skyler Faralan’s travels to Sou...
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Lily Wong, “Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work,...
Lily Wong‘s Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018) traces the genealogy of the Chinese sex worker as a figure who manifests throughout the 20th century in moments of ...
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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care...
Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2018) traces how globalization, neoliberalism and new technology have reshaped migrant care wo...
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