Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050798Author Catherine Ceniza ChoyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and '90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415897Author Lisa M HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

The "yellow peril" is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture-dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist...

"The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve;...

What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980's, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as...

Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in...

Since the late 1980s, many East Asian countries have become more multicultural, a process marked by increased democracy and pluralism despite the continuing influence of nationalism, which has forced these countries in the region to re-envision their...

Promoting China's cultural soft power by disseminating modern Chinese values is one of the policies of President Xi Jinping. Although, it is usually understood as a top-down initiative, implemented willingly or unwillingly by writers, filmmakers,...

Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled "too dark" to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards "I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and...

In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed...

The Chinese experience in Hawai‘i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai‘i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic...

This remarkable first novel follows the struggle of Ben Lucero, a young Filipino American priest who must come to terms with his bifurcated notion of home as well as his own religious commitment. Ben's first visit to the city of Cebu in the Philippines,...

The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341507Author Pa Der VangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Challenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groupsBook InformationISBN 9781592137558Author Jonathan Y. OkamuraFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University...

How a Korean American actor became a Hollywood "Oriental" starBook InformationISBN 9781592135165Author Hye Seung ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

How images portraying Asians as civil subjects contribute to debates on Asian American citizenship.Book InformationISBN 9781439907207Author Thy PhuFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Powerful Learning challenges the notion of the court and the monastic order as static institutions by examining how competition within and between them prompted major rethinking about the intellectual foundations of indigenous society and culture. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816640447Author Jacalyn D. HardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Resisting Asian American Invisibility highlights one group's struggle for educational justice. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in formal and informal educational spaces, this book argues that Hmong American youth are rendered invisible by...

As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness...

In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101 The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The...

The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, Hmong America documents Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and...

Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over...

Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality-the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been-supposedly-surmounted. In this...

Karin Aguilar-San Juan examines the contradictions of Vietnamese American community and identity in two emblematic yet different locales: Little Saigon in suburban Orange County, California (widely described as the capital of Vietnamese America) and the...

Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures,...

Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.comBook InformationISBN 9780295984964Author Shawn WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington...

Offers multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition in America's multiracial, multicultural democratic stateBook InformationISBN 9781592137534Author Sucheng ChanFormat...

Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?Book InformationISBN 9781592133321Author Mari YoshiharaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643150550Author Tian An WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Lever PressPublisher Lever Press

Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. The Senior Collection, which is named after its owner, Robert Senior...

Discusses Asian Americans as a force for political change on both sides of the PacificBook InformationISBN 9781592138609Author Christian ColletFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Focusing on San Diego in the post-Civil Rights era, Linda Trinh Vo examines the ways Asian Americans drew together despite many differences within the group to construct a community that supports a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341330Author Sooh-Rhee RyuFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Offering a window into a critical era in Japanese American life, Pacific Citizens collects key writings of Larry S. Tajiri, a multitalented journalist, essayist, and popular culture maven. He and his wife, Guyo, who worked by his side, became leading...