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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laura kina”
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  • Reenvisioning Histories of American Art

    Transforming Museum Practice

    by Laura Kina ...
    Series series Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
    How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American artUS museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories in light of movements against racism, violence, and the erosion of human rights here and abroad. Self-reflection and transformation have emerged in tandem with a focus on incorporating antiracism and decolonization in museum practice. Fundamental to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Resisting the Nuclear

    Art and Activism across the Pacific

    by Laura Kina ...
    Series series Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
    A transpacific tour of nuclear humanitiesFrom uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • War Baby / Love Child

    Mixed Race Asian American Art

    Edited by Laura Kina, Wei Ming Dariotis ...
    War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Word of Mouth

    Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes

    Edited by Laura Kina, Jave Yoshimoto ...
    Conceived during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and the accompanying rise in anti-Asian bigotry, Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes is an artists’ cookbook featuring stories and artwork from twenty-three Asian American and Asian diaspora artists from across the United States, with contributions that range from Los Angeles–based performance artist Kristina Wong’s “Recipe for ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

    by Yve Chavez, Laura Kina ...
    Series series Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
    Examines how Native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, Gabrieleno Tongva scholar Yve Chavez highlights how ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rethinking Postwar Okinawa

    Beyond American Occupation

    by Pedro Iacobelli, Hiroko Matsuda, Laura Kina, Asako Masubuchi, Hidekazu Sensui, Ayako Takamori, Shinnosuke Takahashi, Ariko S. Ikehara, Ryan Masaaki Yokota0, Johanna O. Zulueta1 ...
    This edited volume presents the latest multidisciplinary research that delves into developments related to contemporary Okinawa (a.k.a Ryukyu Islands), and also engages with contemporary debates on American hegemony and Empire in a larger geographical context. Okinawa, long viewed as a marginalized territory in larger historical processes, has been characterized solely by the U.S. military ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Queer World Making

    Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art

    by Andrew Gayed, Laura Kina ...
    Series series Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
    An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practicePremodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

    by Kyoo Lee ...
    Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    by Barbara Demick ...
    An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemicNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTIn this landmark addition to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    by Craig Steven Wilder ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

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  • This Generation

    Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)

    by Han Han ...
    For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come—an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate the range of this rising literary star and get a fascinating trip through Chinese culture.This ... Read more

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  • Korean Immigrants in Canada

    Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and the Family

    by Samuel Noh, Ann Kim, Marianne Noh ...
    Series series Asian Canadian Studies
    Koreans are one of the fastest-growing visible minority groups in Canada today. However, very few studies of their experiences in Canada or their paths of integration are available to public and academic communities. Korean Immigrants in Canada provides the first scholarly collection of papers on Korean immigrants and their offspring from interdisciplinary, social scientific perspectives.The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD