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LIKE WATER

A Cultural History of Bruce Lee

Daryl Joji Maeda Highlights Bruce Lee’s in uence beyond martial arts and lm

BROWN AND GAY IN LA

The Lives of Immigrant Sons

Anthony Christian Ocampo e stories of secondgeneration immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles.

STUCK

Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder

Margaret M. Chin

A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace

THE COMPLEXITIES OF RACE

Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America

Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe Illuminates how recent shi s in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today

FIERCE AND FEARLESS

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

e rst biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX

THE RACIAL RAILROAD

Julia H. Lee Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United States

THE OPPORTUNITY TRAP

High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program

Pallavi Banerjee

Unravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and families

HYPER EDUCATION

Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough

Pawan Dhingra

An up-close look at the education arms race of a er-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate children

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MEDIA STUDIES

HIP HOP HERESIES

Queer Aesthetics in New York City

Shanté Paradigm Smalls

Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop

In Postmillennial Pop

RACE AND MEDIA

Critical Approaches

Edited

by Lori Kido Lopez

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

In Critical Cultural Communication

THE RACE CARD

From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

Tara Fickle

How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes

In Postmillennial Pop

UNNAMABLE

The Ends of Asian American Art

Susette Min

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that sti es more than it reveals

BROKEN

The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion

Evelyn Alsultany

How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims

PAIN GENERATION

Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Sel e

L. Ayu Saraswati

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

OPEN WORLD EMPIRE

Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

Christopher B. Patterson Turns to erotics to reinvigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play

In Postmillennial Pop

FASHION AND BEAUTY IN THE TIME OF ASIA

Edited by S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia

In Social and Cultural Analysis

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ADOPTING FOR GOD

The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption

Soojin Chung

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement

JAPANESE AMERICANS AND THE RACIAL UNIFORM

Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation

Dana Y. Nakano

How race shapes the lives of later-generation Japanese Americans

In Asian American Sociology

FRAMED BY WAR

Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire

Susie Woo

An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women

In Nation of Nations

OUR VOICES, OUR HISTORIES

Asian American and Paci c Islander Women

Shirley Hune and Gail M. M. Nomura

An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Paci c Islander women’s histories

THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT

Cultural Memory and the Korean War

Daniel Y. Kim

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of e Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory

A WAR BORN FAMILY

African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War

Kori A. Graves e origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children

MUSLIMS OF THE HEARTLAND

How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest

Edward E. Curtis IV Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest

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KEYWORDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Edited by Cathy J. SchlundVials, K. Scott Wong and Linda Trinh Võ

Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American Studies

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WHITER

Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism

Nikki Khanna

Heartfelt 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

THE COLORS OF LOVE

Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships

Melinda Mills

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love

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CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION

An Introduction

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the internet, and more

In Critical America

GEEK GIRLS

Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley

France Winddance Twine

An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the hightech industry

CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA, THIRD EDITION

A Multidisciplinary Reader

Edited by Min Zhou and Anthony Christian Ocampo e third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studies

GLOBAL ASIAN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURES

Edited by Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime and Tasha Oren

A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans in uence, consume and are re ected by mainstream media

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FILIPINO STUDIES

Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora

Edited by Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu

e productive frameworks that open up new archives and innovative landscapes of knowledge for Filipino and Filipino American Studies

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