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The Asian American Experience

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The Minor Intimacies of RaceAsian Publics in North AmericaCHRISTINE KIM”A worthwhile discussion of Asian Canadian and Asian American culture and its fraught relation-ship with the tenets of official multiculturalism. This beautifully captures the registers and modali-ties of feeling produced in more conventional novels as well as aesthetically experimental works.”—Josephine Lee, coeditor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation

200 pp. 6 x 9. 5 b & w photos. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08162-0. $30.00; E-book

Reading Together, Reading ApartIdentity, Belonging, and South Asian American CommunityTAMARA BHALLA”Bhalla offers a multilayered, interdisciplinary treatment on the possibilities (and limitations) involved in both the act of reading and the forma-tion of ethnic identities.”—Pawan Dhingra, author of Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream

224 pp. 6 x 9. 4 b & w photos, 18 tables. 2016. Paperback 978-0-252-08195-8. $26.00; E-book

Chinese in the WoodsLogging and Lumbering in the American WestSUE FAWN CHUNG“This research challenges some of the stereotypes of Chinese loggers as “cheap” and docile in the period of merging unionism, anti-Chinese move-ments, and immigration restrictions.”—Choice

“An impressive testimonial to Chung’s meticulous research and fine scholarship. . . . A very worth-while addition to your library.”—Asian American Comparative Collection Newsletter

264 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 15 b & w photos, 4 maps, 8 tables. 2015. Hardcover 978-0-252-03944-7. $55.00; E-book

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ChinoAnti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880–1940JASON OLIVER CHANG“Original in scope, rigorously researched and analytically sound, Jason Chang’s Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 will be a foundational text for future research on racial formations in Mexico and the Americas, Chinese history in the region, and transnational Asian American Studies.”—Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego

288 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 12 b & w photos, 2 line drawings, 7 maps, 2 tables. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08234-4. $28.00; E-book

AsianfailNarratives of Disenchantment and the Model MinorityELEANOR TYStruggling to turn feelings of #asianfail into #asianhappiness.

“With Asianfail, Eleanor Ty continues her important work in literary studies that invigorates ongoing debates over the meaning of Asian differ-ence in North American culture. By focusing on failure and agency, her work here brings new and needed perspectives”—Victor Bascara, UCLA

184 pp. 6 x 9. 6 b & w photos, 1 table. 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08235-1. $30.00; E-book

The Work of MotheringGlobalization and the Filipino DiasporaHARROD J. SUAREZ“Brilliantly shows how the figure of the Filipina mother as a national symbol and transnational worker becomes a gateway to engaging and challenging nationalist and globalist projects. As an analysis of the racial, gendered and cultural aesthetics of nationalism and diaspora, Suarez’s book intervenes into questions that live at the cen-ter of many fields.”—Roderick Ferguson, author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

232 pp. 6 x 9. 2 b & w photos. October 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08296-2. $30.00; E-book

Becoming Refugee AmericanThe Politics of Rescue in Little SaigonPHUONG TRAN NGUYENHow gratitude and longing forged a new kind of American.

“This is the history that Vietnamese Americans and those who study them have been waiting for, a terrific account of how Vietnamese refugees came to the United States and founded their own Little Saigon. Phuong Nguyen’s clarifying, enjoyable account provides a persuasive framework of ‘refugee nationalism’ for understanding how these newcomers turned themselves into Americans.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Noth-ing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

256 pp. 6 x 9. 6 b & w photos. October 2017. Paperback 978-0-252-08288-7. $28.00; E-book

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Legitimizing EmpireFilipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural CritiqueFAYE CARONAN“Legitimizing Empire places the Philippine and Puerto Rican cases in dialogue to tell distinct sto-ries about U.S. national history and identity with which these nations are intertwined. A fascinating and wonderfully original archive of Filipino and Puerto Rican performance and activism.” —Allan Isaac, author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America


Virtual HomelandsIndian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United StatesMADHAVI MALLAPRAGADA“Gives the reader unique and detailed information about Indian and Indian American internet culture and public discourses about technology and transnationality during the birth of the World Wide Web. . . . I can’t think of a single other book that covers this territory.”—Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet


Islanders in the EmpireFilipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai‘iJOANNA POBLETE“Poblete does a remarkable job situating Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in the context of U.S. empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean. She illustrates how U.S. expansion into these regions was vital for it to produce a global imperial ma-chine that circulated not just soldiers and weap-ons between colonial outposts, but laborers.” —The Hawaiian Journal of History

248 pp. 6 x 9. 2 b & w photos, 5 maps. 2017. New in Paperback 978-0-252-08261-0. $25.00; E-book

Building Filipino Hawai‘iRODERICK N. LABRADOR“An outstanding addition to a growing field of studies focused on Filipina/o American community building and identity formation.” —Western Historical Quarterly

“Labrador provides many necessary interventions to studies of Filipinos in the United States and helps further the reconceptualization of what it means to be Filipino throughout the Philippine diaspora and the ongoing production of global transnationalism.” —The Journal of American History


Asian Americans in DixieRace and Migration in the SouthEDITED BY KHYATI Y. JOSHI AND JIGNA DESAI“This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Ameri-cans in the southern U.S. . . . Essential.”—Choice

“Succeeds in revealing the complex nature of race, community, and Asian American identify and experience in the South both past and present.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

320 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 2 maps, 17 tables. 2013. Paperback 978-0-252-07938-2. $30.00; E-book

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Undercover AsianMultiracial Asian Americans in Visual CultureLEILANI NISHIME“Nishime makes a compelling argument for pro-ductive possibilities in the way that we understand multiracial bodies and narratives. This fascinating, elegant book provides a model for doing this kind of analysis and creating new narratives so that these possibilities may one day be realized.” —Feminist Media Studies


In Pursuit of GoldChinese American Miners and Merchants in the American WestSUE FAWN CHUNG“An excellent explanation of the familial and cul-tural links between the Chinese of the Guangdong region and how that influenced their relationships in the United States.”—Nevada in the West

“With its interesting portraits of little-known towns and the Chinese Americans who inhabited them, In Pursuit of Gold is full of surprises and discoveries.”—Historical Studies in Ethnicity

296 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 16 b & w photos, 4 maps, 4 tables. 2014. Paperback 978-0-252-08054-8. $35.00; E-book

Indian AccentsBrown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and FilmSHILPA S. DAVÉ“Shilpa Davé was able to capture the multidimen-sional elements of representations of people of color that go beyond visual markers of identifica-tion but also include sonic components to ethnic characters in media. Her innovative application of the double meaning of the word ‘accent’ opens a new level of analysis of ethnic representation in film and media studies and ethnic studies.” —Journal of Asian American Studies


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