Five Faces of Exile

Augusto Fauni Espiritu

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by explori... Lees meer

New Worlds, New Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• This ambitious work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by studying their communities i... Lees meer

Contraceptive Diplomacy

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States... Lees meer

Consuming Citizenship

Lisa Sun-Hee Park

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenshi... Lees meer

Consuming Citizenship

Lisa Sun-Hee Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenshi... Lees meer

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery

Caroline H Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation.... Lees meer

Nisei Naysayer

James Matsumoto Omura

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his... Lees meer

Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress

Alice Yang Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• This book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans during the las... Lees meer

To Save the Children of Korea

Arissa H Oh

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice... Lees meer

Straitjacket Sexualities

Celine Shimizu

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities ... Lees meer

Asian America

Roger Daniels

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the... Lees meer

Inscrutable Belongings

Stephen Hong Sohn

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North Am... Lees meer

Sexual Naturalization

Susan Koshy

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary st... Lees meer

Envisioning America

Tritia Toyota

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civi... Lees meer

Double Agency

Tina Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• In Double Agency , Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture... Lees meer

The Global Silicon Valley Home

Shenglin Chang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to t... Lees meer

Across Meridians

Jinqi Ling

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across... Lees meer

Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow

Daniel Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influenti... Lees meer

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academ... Lees meer

Thinking Its Presence

Dorothy J Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impa... Lees meer

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

Karen M Inouye

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• The first book-length examination of the lingering political legacy of the wartime imprisonment of people of Japanese ancestry in Canada and the Unite... Lees meer

Chinese Chicago

Huping Ling

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• The first comprehensive, comparative and interpretive history of a highly important historical settlement of Chinese / Chinese Americans in the U.S., ... Lees meer

Aspiring to Home

Bakirathi Mani

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Aspiring to Home explores South Asian immigrants as they create new ethnic identities through popular cultural works that bind together narratives of ... Lees meer

The Semblance of Identity

Christopher Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• This book examines how Asian American fiction reveals with the limitations of identity while continuing to rely on its theoretical logic as the basis ... Lees meer