AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first...Read more about AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of U.S. borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American...Read more about Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama
By Lok Siu - While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. Memories of a Future Home offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in...Read more about Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama
Sampling Many Pots: A Historical Archaeology of a Multi-Ethnic Bahamian Community
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural melange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African...Read more about Sampling Many Pots: A Historical Archaeology of a Multi-Ethnic Bahamian Community
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"--two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial...Read more about America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum...Read more about Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty...Read more about Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife’s Tale
Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South Read more about The Archaeology of Mothering: An African-American Midwife’s Tale
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
By Catherine Ceniza Choy: In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively...Read more about Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Translating Mo'Um
By Cathy Park Hong: "Deft, edgy, dystopic, assiduous in their loathing of the famous fascination of the exotic, Cathy Park Hong's poems burst forth in searing flashes of ire and insight. She gives no quarter to either Korean or English. Without creative
Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz...Read more about Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship...Read more about Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1845-1950
Historians' conception of plantation life in the American South, both post- and antebellum, derives almost exclusively from the written record, hence mainly from the white owners' perspectives. In Creating Freedom, historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie pulls the half-opened curtain wider...Read more about Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1845-1950
Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation
As nationalism and the nation-state have recently come under siege, a resurgent cosmopolitanism has emerged as a viable and alternative political project. In Cosmopolitics, a renowned group of scholars and political theorists offers the first sustained examination of that project, its...Read more about Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation
Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a...Read more about Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
East To America: Korean American Life Stories
In this collection of powerful, candid oral histories, a wide cross section of Korean Americans renders a portrait of a community grappling with racial tensions, class and gender differences, and differing notions of family and home.Read more about East To America: Korean American Life Stories
Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women
Asian-American women writers of all ages explore a complex range of identities through poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, most of which have never been published. The contributors take on little explored topics and expand the limits of ethnic-based identity, resisting stereotypes and...Read more about Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women
Nisei Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
In Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics, Jere Takahashi challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community's essentially linear process toward assimilation into U.S. society. As he develops a complex and nuanced account of Japanese American life,...Read more about Nisei Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism
Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative...Read more about Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism
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