Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between
For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law,...Read more about Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between
Southeast Asian Migration: People On the Move in Search of Work, Refuge and Belonging
Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war,...Read more about Southeast Asian Migration: People On the Move in Search of Work, Refuge and Belonging
Immigration and Democracy
Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic...Read more about Immigration and Democracy
Education and Racism: A Primer on Issues and Dilemmas
Education and Racism is a concise and easily accessible primer for introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the field of race and education. Designed for introductory courses, each chapter provides an overview of a main issue or dilemma in the research on racial inequality and...Read more about Education and Racism: A Primer on Issues and Dilemmas
Roots of the Issei: Exploring Japanese American Newspapers
Roots 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 remaining connected to Japan. Against this...Read more about Roots of the Issei: Exploring Japanese American Newspapers
Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema
By Jinsoo An: The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian...Read more about Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema
Researching Philippine Realities: A Guide to Qualitative, Quantitative, and Humanities Research
Responding to the need for contextualized inquiry, Researching Philippine Realities is a practical manual that accompanies students and scholars in writing qualitative, quantitative, or humanities research. The book guides the reader from the broad basics of forming a question and argument...Read more about Researching Philippine Realities: A Guide to Qualitative, Quantitative, and Humanities Research
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race
Edited by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu: As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that...Read more about Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race
Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for...Read more about Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
A Shadow over Palestine brings a new, deeply informed, and transnational perspective to the decades and the cultural forces that have shaped sharply differing ideas of Israel’s standing with the United States—right up to the violent divisions of today. Focusing on the period from 1960 to...Read more about A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, hackers—have become practitioners of...Read more about Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought
Popular sovereignty—the doctrine that the public powers of the state originate in a concessive grant of power from ‘the people’—is perhaps the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory. Its classic formulation is to be found in the major theoretical treatments of the modern state,...Read more about Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought
What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative...Read more about What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Cultures and World Revolution
By Steven S. Lee: During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what...Read more about The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Cultures and World Revolution
Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early “songcatchers” were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female...Read more about Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution and the Making of The Cambodian Diaspora
In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of...Read more about From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution and the Making of The Cambodian Diaspora
Racial Formation in the United States- 3rd Edition
Michael Omi - Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael...Read more about Racial Formation in the United States- 3rd Edition
Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade
In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about work and...Read more about Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade
Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
By Catherine Ceniza Choy: In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention...Read more about Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those...Read more about Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely...Read more about Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines
Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces
In Kinesthetic City, author SanSan Kwan explores the contentious nature of Chineseness in diaspora through the lens of moving bodies as they relate to place, time, and identity. She locates her study in five Chinese urban sites--Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York's Chinatown, and the...Read more about Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces
New Routes for Diaspora Studies
Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S.,...Read more about New Routes for Diaspora Studies
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is...Read more about Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
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