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  • Global Anti-Asian Racism

    Edited by Jennifer Ho ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    Global anti-Asian racism, particularly in the guise of Yellow Peril, has endured for centuries around the world. In Europe and the Americas, Asian immigrants and refugees were, and are, treated as threats to national security. Yellow Peril and anti-Asian racism is also found in Africa, Australia, and in Asian nations as well. Wherever Asian immigrants and refugees found themselves, anti-Asian ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels

    by Jennifer Ho ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Americans
    This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Teaching Asian North American Texts

    Edited by Jennifer Ho, Jenny Heijun Wills ...
    Series Book 57 - Options for Teaching
    From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Asian North American literature and media encompass a long history and a diverse variety of genres and aesthetic approaches ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

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  • A Chinaman's Chance

    One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream

    by Eric Liu ...
    From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged -- and indeed may displace America -- at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American ... Read more

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  • Naming Jhumpa Lahiri

    Canons and Controversies

    Edited by Lavina Dhingra, Floyd Cheung ...
    Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, upper middle-class professional Bengalis and their children living in New England since the 1970s, they simultaneously address universal themes ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Samurai Assassins

    "Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868

    by Romulus Hillsborough ...
    Assassination--in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder"--was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and moral philosophy of the men behind the revolution--including bushidō or "the way of the warrior"--informed their actions and would become the ... Read more

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  • Bamboo Among The Oaks

    Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans

    Edited by Mai Neng Moua ...
    Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can be found in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, and Colorado, and St. Paul ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Children of 1965

    On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American

    by Min Hyoung Song ...
    Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation encompasses writers as diverse as the graphic novelists Adrian Tomine and Gene Luen Yang, the short ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Terrifying Muslims

    Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

    by Junaid Rana ...
    Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Migrating Fictions

    Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements

    by Abigail G. H. Manzella ...
    Winner, 2021 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book AwardWinner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardMigrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920

    by Kazuhiro Oharazeki ...
    Series series Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very personal accounts with never before examined Japanese sources, historian Kazuhiro Oharazeki traces these women’s transnational journeys from their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    by Jennifer Ann Ho ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD