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North Korea and the Science of Provocation: Fifty Years of Conflict-Making by Robert Daniel Wallace 9780786499694
RRP: £21.99£17.97Why does North Korea consistently turn to provocative actions to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the Kim regime predictable or based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? In an examination of North Korean conflict... -
Durga Umayi: A Novel by Y. B. Mangunwijaya 9780295983929
RRP: £23.99£20.84This scathingly satirical and hilarious novel, first published in Indonesia in 1991, affords both a blithely irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and brilliant insights into the postcolonial condition.The story begins... -
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by Lon Kurashige 9781469659138
RRP: £32.95£30.29From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian... -
The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam by Robert S. McKelvey 9780295978369
£30.27The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American... -
Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans by Sangay K. Mishra 9780816681150
£67.86For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South... -
Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory by Christoph Giebel 9780295984285
RRP: £87.00£38.15Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communisim illuminates the real and imagined lives of Ton Duc Thang (1888-1980), a celebrated revolutionary activist and Vietnamese communist icon, but it is much more than a conventional biography. This multifaceted... -
Hmong & American: From Refugees to Citizens by Vincent K. Her 9780873518482
RRP: £21.50£16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873518482Author Vincent K. HerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U... -
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South by Stephanie Hinnershitz 9781469661506
RRP: £29.95£28.58In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans... -
American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II by Eric L. Muller 9781469641904
RRP: £27.95£27.32When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the... -
Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific by Camilla Fojas 9780803237957
£42.79The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology,... -
Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II by Elliott Young 9781469612966
RRP: £37.95£36.12In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders... -
Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. a Memoir by Juanita Tamayo Lott 9780996351782
RRP: £19.95£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996351782Author Juanita Tamayo LottFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Eastwind Books of BerkeleyPublisher Eastwind Books of BerkeleyWeight(grams)... -
Chinese in Minnesota by Sherri Gebert Fuller 9780873514705
RRP: £12.50£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514705Author Sherri Gebert FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam by Paisley Rekdal 9780820351179
RRP: £21.95£15.65The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident - in which... -
When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 9780804775182
RRP: £19.99£17.54"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it,... -
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 by Him Mark Lai 9780295994079
RRP: £23.99£20.71In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at... -
The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC by Pitman B. Potter 9780295971278
RRP: £87.00£78.92The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRCBook InformationISBN 9780295971278Author Pitman B. PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington... -
Transnational Cultural Flow from Home: Korean Community in Greater New York by Pyong Gap Min 9781978827158
RRP: £124.00£107.04When the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers... -
My Life: Growing Up Asian in America by CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) 9781982195366
RRP: £17.99£10.02A collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred), for fans of Minor Feelings.There are 23 million people, representing more than twenty... -
Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade by Victor H. Li 9780295955124
RRP: £91.00£79.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780295955124Author Victor H. LiFormat HardbackPage Count 487Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington PressWeight(grams) 726g -
Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo 9780295993928
RRP: £23.99£20.18Mine 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... -
National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity: Chronicling Continuity and Change by Roksana Badruddoja 9798888900086
RRP: £25.00£16.73In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary... -
Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda 9781479830732
RRP: £15.99£14.24Highlights 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,... -
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us by Christopher B. Patterson 9781478030263
RRP: £23.99£20.84Made in Asia/America explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers... -
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us by Christopher B. Patterson 9781478026037
RRP: £95.00£82.73Made in Asia/America explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers... -
Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique by Kandice Chuh 9780822331407
RRP: £20.99£18.37Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and... -
Resisting Asian American Invisibility: The Politics of Race and Education by Stacey J. Lee 9780807767443
£39.21Resisting 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... -
Exiled to Motown: A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit by Scott Kurashige 9780295749020
RRP: £23.99£20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780295749020Author Scott KurashigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington Press -
South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat by Aparajita De 9781498512527
RRP: £95.00£83.12This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to... -
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism by Nikki Khanna 9781479881086
RRP: £74.00£64.45Heartfelt 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... -
Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives by Vince Schleitwiler 9781479864690
RRP: £74.00£64.85Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans,... -
Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder by Margaret M. Chin 9781479842766
RRP: £15.99£14.24Winner, 2022 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship, given by the American Sociological Association's Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance & Management Category A behind-the-scenes... -
Asian American Sporting Cultures by Stanley I. Thangaraj 9781479840168
RRP: £74.00£64.45Delves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields Through a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling... -
Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants by SunAh M Laybourn 9781479814787
RRP: £23.99£20.84How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US... -
Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang 9781478016359
RRP: £83.00£72.11In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in... -
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 9781478010661
RRP: £85.00£73.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478010661Author Thuy Linh Nguyen TuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas by Jinah Kim 9781478001355
RRP: £83.00£72.11In Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since World War II. Kim argues that Asian diasporic subjectivity exists in relation to afterlives because the deaths... -
Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times by Aimee Bahng 9780822363644
RRP: £85.00£73.81In 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... -
Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity by Eric J. Pido 9780822363538
RRP: £85.00£73.81In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans-Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland-to reconceptualize migration as a process of... -
From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by ShooJin Pate 9780816683079
RRP: £21.99£19.19Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as...