Queering the Global Filipina Body

Gina K Velasco

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the... Lees meer

The Labor of Care

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues t... Lees meer

Not Just Victims

Sucheng Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Wars in Southeast Asia drove unprecedented numbers of Cambodian refugees to settle in the United States. From southern California to New England, Camb... Lees meer

The Minor Intimacies of Race

Christine Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American Experience
• An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic m... Lees meer

Discriminating Sex

Amy Sueyoshi

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillat... Lees meer

Lured by the American Dream

P James Paligutan

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral hi... Lees meer

Lured by the American Dream

P James Paligutan

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral hi... Lees meer

Shadow Traces

Elena Tajima Creef

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an ... Lees meer

Manifest Technique

Mark R Villegas

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American Experience
• An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the s... Lees meer

From Concentration Camp to Campus

Allan W Austin

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American Experience
• In the aftermath of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the systematic exile and incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, the National Japanes... Lees meer

Issei Buddhism in the Americas

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American Experience
• Rich in primary sources and featuring contributions from scholars on both sides of the Pacific, Issei Buddhism in the Americas upends boundaries and c... Lees meer