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Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
RRP: £24.99£21.23In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai'i was... -
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco
RRP: £21.99£18.79Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K... -
The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore by Adam Tyson
RRP: £135.00£117.28Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain... -
Race, Religion, and the 'Indian Muslim' Predicament in Singapore by Torsten Tschacher
RRP: £43.99£38.44Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt... -
Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley by Shalini Shankar
RRP: £23.99£20.41Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful... -
China's New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order by Carmen Amado Mendes
RRP: £135.00£117.28Much is being written about China's new 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, but much of the writing focuses on China itself, on the destinations of the road - Europe and the Middle East - or on the countries through which the road passes, such as Central... -
Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America by Mary Paik Lee
RRP: £20.99£17.98Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the... -
Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai
RRP: £21.99£16.71Fred Korematsu's decision to resist F.D.R.'s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with... -
Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics by Carol Upadhya
RRP: £39.99£35.06The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions– about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and... -
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years by Paul Howard Takemoto
RRP: £25.99£22.04Outstanding Title, University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2007 EditionNisei Memories is an extraordinarily moving account of two second-generation Japanese Americans who were demonized as threats to national security... -
Divinizing in South Asian Traditions by Diana Dimitrova
RRP: £135.00£117.28The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and... -
The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946 by Rick Baldoz
RRP: £27.99£23.66The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second "Asiatic invasions." Perceived as alien because... -
The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
£89.88Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parrenas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that... -
Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State by Robert Chang
RRP: £27.99£24.95Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation... -
Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories by Andrew Garrod
RRP: £21.99£19.87"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their own personalities,' melding their point of view with their points of origin and their places of... -
Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times by Aimee Bahng
RRP: £22.99£19.60In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for... -
Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko by Deborah Wong 9780520304529
RRP: £30.00£22.822020 Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian... -
Citizenship, Identity and Social Movements in the New Hong Kong: Localism after the Umbrella Movement by Wai-man Lam
RRP: £43.99£38.44Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution' has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polity's post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kong's political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to... -
The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy Carol S. Leonard 9780367146917
RRP: £130.00£110.50The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to...