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Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation by Gary Y. Okihiro
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power-notably,... -
The Boundless Sea: Self and History by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780520309661
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and... -
The Boundless Sea: Self and History by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780520309654
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and... -
Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780313399152
Booksplease Price: £86.45This book addresses the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II-a topic significant to all Americans, regardless of race or color.The internment of Japanese Americans... -
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation Gary Y. Okihiro 9781478030676
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might constitute the formation of Third World studies. Proposed in 1968 at... -
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780822362098
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power-notably,... -
Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States by Gary Y. Okihiro
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai'i. Instead,... -
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation Gary Y. Okihiro 9781478026440
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might constitute the formation of Third World studies. Proposed in 1968 at... -
Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780520265905
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple... -
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780295993560
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.58In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical... -
American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780520274358
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.56Focussing on a survey of US history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a... -
Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780295977966
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes-often in... -
Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II by Gary Y. Okihiro 9780295996622
Booksplease Price: £113.08During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes-often in... -
Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 by Gary Okihiro
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War IIA history of a systematic anti-Japanese... -
A Companion to Asian American Studies by Kent A. Ono 9781405115957
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £49.32A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. ... -
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians by Tetsuden Kashima 9780295975580
Booksplease Price: £28.81Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II. Although this wartime episode is now almost... -
Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America by Ajay Nair 9780739127223
Booksplease Price: £51.20Desi Rap is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class... -
Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America by Ajay Nair 9780739127216
Booksplease Price: £95.49Desi Rap is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class... -
Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.: A Dialogue on Inequality and Minority Education by Minglang Zhou 9780230613348
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.64This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in... -
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh 9780822327295 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £8.77Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in... -
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in... -
Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives by Huping Ling 9780791438640
Booksplease Price: £26.07The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.Surviving on the Gold Mountain is the first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history... -
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Dorothea Lange
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.65Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. Feng 9780822329831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £1.03This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i by Camilla Fojas 9780824869885
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.74Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai'i's myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics... -
Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video by Peter X. Feng 9780822329961
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This innovative book shows how Asian American filmmakers and videomakers frame and are framed by history-how they define and are defined by cinematic projections of Asian American identity. Combining... -
Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories by Andrew Garrod
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £7.62"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... -
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture by Shilpa Dave 9780814719633
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82An interdisciplinary anthology of the rich Asian American influence on U.S. popular culture From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to "faux Asian" fashions, housewares and fusion... -
Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present by Judy Yung 9780520243101
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Described by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and, more recently, as successful and exemplary, the Chinese in America have rarely been asked to describe themselves in... -
Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S... -
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Naoko Wake
Booksplease Price: £37.86American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the... -
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Naoko Wake 9781108799904
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.61American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the... -
An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture by Crystal Parikh 9780823230433
Booksplease Price: £35.22In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from... -
Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura by James Matsumoto Omura 9781503604957
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.65Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called... -
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire by Gerald Horne 9780814736401
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.91Japan's lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian... -
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire by Gerald Horne 9780814736418
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Japan's lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian... -
Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States by Nicholas De Genova 9780822337164
Booksplease Price: £30.96Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the... -
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population... -
Mobilizing An Asian American Community by Linda Vo 9781592132621
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Focusing 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... -
Mobilizing An Asian American Community by Linda Trinh Vo 9781592132614
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £61.98Focusing 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...