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San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement by Estella Habal
RRP: $82.56$73.22How a protest galvanized a cultural identity for Filipino AmericansBook InformationISBN 9781592134458Author Estella HabalFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Locating Filipino Americans by Rick Bonus
RRP: $89.01$77.93The Filipino American population in the U.S. is expected to reach more than two million by the next century. Yet many Filipino Americans contend that years of formal and covert exclusion from mainstream political, social, and economic institutions on... -
Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection by Feng Menglong
$124.63Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best... -
Imagining Asia in the Americas by Zelideth María Rivas
RRP: $45.15$40.93For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of... -
Hmong in Wisconsin by Mai Zong Vue
RRP: $16.71$11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209420Author Mai Zong VueFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society... -
Nikkei in the Interior West: Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882-1945 by Eric Walz
RRP: $69.66$56.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529476Author Eric WalzFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City by Benito M. Vergara
RRP: $94.17$83.42Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed "the Pinoy Capital of the United States". In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents,... -
Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor by Priya Srinivasan
RRP: $89.01$77.83Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipBook InformationISBN 9781439904299Author Priya SrinivasanFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Temple University Press,U.S... -
New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the US by Gita Rajan
$77.39This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and... -
American Mestizos, The Philippines, and the Malleability of Race: 1898-1961 by Nicholas Trajano Molnar
RRP: $82.56$75.16The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding... -
A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America by Shamita Das Dasgupta
$46.23A Patchwork Shawl sheds light on the lives of a segment of the U.S. immigrant population that has long been relegated to the margins. It focuses on women's lives that span different worlds: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the United States. This... -
The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Associate Professor Jennifer Lee
$55.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871545473Author Associate Professor Jennifer LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage... -
The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora by Theodore S. Gonzalves
RRP: $94.17$82.15A rite of passage for Filipino American college students, Filipino Cultural Night challenges official accounts of the pastBook InformationISBN 9781592137282Author Theodore S. GonzalvesFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Temple University Press,U.S... -
Roots of the Issei: Exploring Early Japanese Newspapers by Andrew Way Leong
RRP: $6.39$5.56Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while... -
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture by Sucheng Chan
RRP: $99.33$88.49Offers multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition in America's multiracial, multicultural democratic stateBook InformationISBN 9781592137527Author Sucheng ChanFormat... -
In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building by Sucheng Chan
$37.72In Defense of Asian American Studies offers fascinating tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. Wielding intellectual energy, critical... -
Eat a Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu
RRP: $25.79$18.95At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries... -
Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California by Alfred Yee
RRP: $33.53$28.43From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in... -
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation by Min Zhou
RRP: $110.94$98.63A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experienceBook InformationISBN 9781592138579Author Min ZhouFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness by Nitasha Tamar Sharma
RRP: $33.53$28.43Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense... -
Chinese-Ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging by Wing Young Huie
RRP: $38.64$26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340425Author Wing Young HuieFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary by Margo Machida
RRP: $34.82$30.77In Unsettled Visions, the activist, curator, and scholar Margo Machida presents a pioneering, in-depth exploration of contemporary Asian American visual art. Machida focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had... -
Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction by Madeline Y. Hsu
RRP: $11.60$8.32Asians have migrated to North America for centuries, in search of opportunities and conveyed by increasingly dense, international circuits of trade, labor markets, and family networks. Drawn by the riches promised by the relatively undeveloped, but not... -
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda
RRP: $74.82$31.68Highlights Bruce Lee's influence beyond martial arts and film An Asian and Asian American icon of unimaginable stature and influence, Bruce Lee revolutionized the martial arts by combining influences drawn from around the world. Uncommonly determined,... -
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David L. Eng 9781478001607
RRP: $29.66$25.28In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to... -
Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia by S. Heijin Lee
RRP: $36.11$30.52How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called "Asian Century." S. Heijin Lee,... -
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 by Roger Daniels
RRP: $33.53$28.95In 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... -
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene by Celine Parrenas Shimizu
RRP: $33.53$28.43In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations... -
The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays by Frank Chin
RRP: $28.37$24.24When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the... -
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang
RRP: $25.80$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004173Author Iris ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic by Minoru Masuda
RRP: $33.53$28.43This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Written to his wife by a medic serving with the segregated Japanese American unit, the letters describe a... -
Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910 by Catherine Yeh
RRP: $74.82$64.86In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not... -
Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America by Yong Chen 9780231168939
RRP: $25.80$20.05American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first... -
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days by Marzia Balzani
RRP: $51.59$42.27This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a... -
Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection by Menglong Feng
RRP: $58.05$50.92Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best... -
Advanced Reader of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories: Reflections on Humanity by Ying Wang
RRP: $46.44$36.64This reader for advanced students of Chinese presents ten post-1990 short stories by prominent writers such as Su Tong and Yu Hua, whose novels Raise the Red Lantern and To Live served as the basis for internationally acclaimed films. With its... -
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856 by David John Arnold
RRP: $36.11$30.52Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to... -
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific by Patty O'Brien 9780295987651
RRP: $36.11$31.04The Pacific Muse offers a fresh perspective on a seductively familiar topic: the colonial stereotype of the exotic Pacific island woman. By tracing the evolution of female primitivism from Western antiquity to twentieth-century Hollywood images, the book... -
The European Union and Myanmar: Interactions via ASEAN by Ludovica Marchi
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book analyses European foreign policy as the activity of the European Union (EU) as a global actor and explores its efforts to raise its visibility in Southeast Asia through its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and... -
The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity by Shalva Weil
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries...