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A framework for immigration
Although stereotypically portrayed as academic and economic achievers, Asian Americans often live in poverty, underserved by human services, undercompensated in the workforce, and subject to discrimination. Although often perceived as a single, homogenous group, there are significant differences ...
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A tragedy of democracy
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies t...
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Asian american elders in the twenty-first century
Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or individuals who joined their American families lat...
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Asian american fiction after 1965
Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.
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Chinatown, honolulu
This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.
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Chinese prodigal
From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country After his father’s passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship betw...
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Chop suey, usa
An epic tale of globalized cultural exchange by means of our first “fast food.”
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Enmity and empathy
The experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil—a legacy relevant in today’s divisive world.The forced eviction and confinement of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor in 1941 was...
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Filipino time
This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulat...
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Filipinx american studies
This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajecto...
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Flashpoints for asian american studies
Born out of mid-century social movements, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection which considers the contemporary pos...
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Global anti-asian racism
This volume illuminates the multifaceted nature of global anti-Asian racism and the resilience of Asians across the world to resist and counter this bigotry and bias.
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Nowhere to be home
Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”
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One out of three
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City.
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Our laundry, our town
NEW IN PAPERBACK!BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKWith humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s...
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Return to paueru gai
Essays about the remarkable history of Vancouver's Powell Street Festival and the proud Japanese Canadian community behind it Paueru Gai, the Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, was a place of early settlement and forced removal for Japanese Canadians during the shameful...
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Skirt full of black
A remarkable debut exploring the Korean adoptee experience and expanding linguistic boundaries through lyric collage.
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Studies in intellectual history of tokugawa japan
A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the unde...
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Supporting asian american students in multicultural contexts
This book offers an in-depth exploration of Asian American students’ dual language use, literacy development and multicultural identity (re)construction. It guides teachers, teacher educators and parents on supporting racially, linguistically and culturally diverse students in inclusive classrooms.
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Tabemasho! let's eat!
Your favorite Japanese foods, home-cooked, packaged, or served in restaurants, and how they came to delight the American palate.
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The chinatown trunk mystery
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a ...
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The color of success
The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of...
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The columbia guide to asian american history
Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences an...
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The feminist pacific
The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in Hawai‘i beginning in 1820, with the arrival of American missionary wives, and through the rise of women’s internationalism in the interwar years.
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The four masterworks of the ming novel
A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel” (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narr...
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The good immigrants
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance bec...
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The lucky ones
The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the fir...
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The model minority stereotype
This sourcebook assists readers in locating research on the model minority stereotype of Asian American success. Each thematic chapter challenges the stereotype, and the second edition includes updated contents and a twelfth chapter, making it the most comprehensive book on the model minority myt...
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We are each other's liberation
A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's Liberation envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics th...
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