Yellow Light

Amy Ling

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Represents the broad spectrum of ethnicities that make up Asian America. This anthology shows the contradictions, influences, imagination, and humanit... Lees meer

Where I Have Never Been

Patricia P Chu

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents' ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not ... Lees meer

Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities

Heidi Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• In the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were caught in a double-bind. The widespread stigma of illegal immigration, as it was often called, was most ea... Lees meer

Recovered Legacies

Keith Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature employs contemporary and traditional readings of representative works in... Lees meer

The Refugee Aesthetic

Timothy K August

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• The refugee is conventionally considered a powerless figure, eagerly cast aside by both migrant and host communities. In his book, The Refugee Aesthet... Lees meer

Reading the Literatures of Asian America

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of P... Lees meer

The United States of India

Manan Desai

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• The United States of India shows how Indian and American writers in the United States played a key role in the development of anticolonial thought in ... Lees meer

The Asian American Movement

William Wei

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• A history and analysis of the Asian American Movement, this work traces to the late 1960s, the genesis of an Asian American identity, culture, and act... Lees meer

Water Thicker Than Blood

George Uba

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• "I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life...had their start mu... Lees meer

The Sum of Our Parts

Teresa Williams-Leon

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• This collection of essays focuses on the construction of identity among people of Asian descent who claim multiple heritage. In their consideration of... Lees meer

America's Vietnam

Marguerite Nguyen

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination--one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the ... Lees meer

Cane Fires

Gary Okihiro

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Challenging the view of Hawaii as a mythical racial paradise, this work presents the history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands fro... Lees meer

Pinoy Capital

Benito Vergara

• Paperback | Asian American History & Cultu
• Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy Capital of the Un... Lees meer

Countervisions

Darrell Hamamoto

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, this book examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a ... Lees meer

Mobilizing an Asian American Community

Linda Vo

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• Focusing on San Diego in the post-Civil Rights era, Linda Trinh Vo examines the ways Asian Americans drew together - despite many differences within t... Lees meer

The Politics of Life

Velina Houston

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• States that the Asian American woman playwright is compelled 'to mine her soul' and express the angst, fear, and rage that oppression has wrought whil... Lees meer

Racial Feelings

Jeffrey Santa Ana

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• In Racial Feelings, Jeffrey Santa Ana examines how Asian American narratives communicate and critique--to varying degrees--the emotions that power the... Lees meer

Americans First

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• WWII was a watershed event for many of American's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Using archival research, a... Lees meer

From Confinement to Containment

Edward Tang

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Contai... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law

Masumi Izumi

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It r... Lees meer

The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• The conflict that Americans call the Vietnam War was only one of many incursions into Vietnam by foreign powers. However, it has had a profound effect... Lees meer

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

• Paperback | Asian American History & Cultu
• How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II Lees meer

Q & A Queer and Asian

Alvin Eng

• Paperback | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• What did it mean to be queer and Asian American at the turn of the century? This volume considers how Asian American racial and queer sexuality interc... Lees meer

Q&A

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian American History & Cultu
• First published in 1998, Q & A: Queer in Asian America , edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies an... Lees meer