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  • Two Faces of Exclusion

    The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States

    by Lon Kurashige ...
    From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it was a subject of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion story by ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Pacific America

    Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

    by Lon Kurashige, Eiichiro Azuma, Keith L. Camacho, Greg Dvorak, Professor Augusto Espiritu, Dr. Peter E. Hamilton, Professor Brian Masaru Hayashi, Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor Phuong Nguyen, Professor Christen T. Sasaki0, Professor Elizabeth Sinn1, John E. Wills, , Jr.2, Professor Susie Woo3, Yujin Yaguchi4, Professor Kariann Akemi Yokota5 ...
    In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies

    Conversations on Race and Racializations

    by Yasuko Takezawa, Gary Y. Okihiro, Michael Omi, Professor Yuko Konno, Professor Fuminori Minamikawa, Dr. Andrea Geiger, Professor Yuko Matsumoto, Dr. Valerie J. Matsumoto, Dr, Wesley Ueunten0, Professor Sachiko Kawakami1, Eiichiro Azuma2, Professor Rika Nakamura3, Professor Masumi Izumi4, Mari J. Matsuda5, Professor Noriko K. Ishii6, Lon Kurashige7, Professor Okiyoshi Takeda8, Professor Yoko Tsukuda9, Duncan Ryuken Williams0 ...
    Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together some of the most renowned scholars of the discipline in Japan and North America. It seeks to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Color of Success

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  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

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  • Place, Not Race

    A New Vision of Opportunity in America

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    From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative actionRace-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four ... Read more

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