DIA SPOR A & IDENTIT Y FILIPINO STUDIES
STRANGE FRUIT OF THE BLACK PACIFIC
Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Edited by Martin F. Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu
Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives
Vince Schleitwiler
Makes bold declarations about the productive frameworks that open up new archives and innovative landscapes of knowledge for Filipino and Filipino American Studies
Traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across media
SITTING IN DARKNESS
Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
Hsuan L. Hsu
Khatharya Um
Reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese Exclusion and Jim Crow, Mark Twain’s writings registered fluctuating connections between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism
Maps the lived experiences of Cambodian refugees as they navigate revolution, transnationalism, memory, and identity
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288 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-5708-1 • $28.00 In the Nation of Nations series
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248 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-1510-4 • $24.00 In the America and the Long 19th Century series
PERFORMANCE S TUDIES
Rachel C. Lee
Considers how the designation of “Asian American” itself is a mental construct that is paradoxically linked to the biological body
336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0978-3 • $26.00 In the Sexual Cultures series
Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
Ju Yon Kim
Invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny
304 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-4432-6 • $28.00
YOUTH & FAMILY 2015 Asia and Asian America Section Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association
CARING ACROSS GENERATIONS
HOW CHINESE ARE YOU?
Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim
Andrea Louie
The Linked Lives of Korean American Families
Provides a new look at the linked lives of immigrants and their families, and the struggles and triumphs that they face over many generations
Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture
An engaging and original study of the fluidity of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity in modern America
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CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN THE FILIPINO PRIMITIVE
Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum
Sarita Echavez See 272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2505-9 • $30.00
A SIAN AMERIC AN CULTURE
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“The Filipino Primitive is generative and captivatingly relevant amid the current global crises over income inequality, border disputes, and belonging. With fascinating incisiveness, Sarita Echavez See invites us to rethink theft and debt through cultural archives and productions.” —Allan Punzalan Isaac, author of American Tropics
Third Edition A Multidisciplinary Reader
Edited by Min Zhou and Anthony C. Ocampo
Offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America
688 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2622-3 • $35.00
GLOBAL ASIAN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURES
THE 9/11 GENERATION
Edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime and Tasha Oren
Sunaina Marr Maira
A Food Studies Reader
FACING THE RISING SUN “Through uncovering a rich, dynamic history of pro-
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise Japanese views among U.S. Black nationalists during the Depression and World War II, Gerald Horne has produced of Afro-Asian Solidarity a brilliant book that provides a powerful model for Gerald Horne writing about transnational African American history, 240 Pages • Cloth global white supremacy, and Afro-Asian solidarities.” 978-1-4798-4859-1 • $30.00 —Erik S. McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom
Edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan and Anita Mannur
A collection of essays connecting Asian American food to larger social and political contexts in the United States
453 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-6925-1 • $27.00
Gender, Race, and Media
Leah Perry
Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the “political,” even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume, and are reflected by mainstream media
400 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-1573-9 • $30.00
FORTHCOMING EATING ASIAN AMERICA
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF U.S. IMMIGRATION
Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy
320 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-8051-5 • $28.00
288 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2386-4 • $30.00 In the Nation of Nations series
ASIAN AMERICAN SPORTING CULTURES
JAPANESE AMERICAN ETHNICITY
Edited by Stanley I. Thangaraj, Constancio Arnaldo and Christina B. Chin Foreword by J. Jack Halberstam Afterword by Lisa Lowe
UNNAMABLE
The Ends of Asian American Art
Susette Min
Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals
In Search of Heritage and Homeland Across Generations
Takeyuki Tsuda
Demonstrates how culturally assimilated minorities can simultaneously maintain their ancestral cultures while actively recovering their lost ethnic heritage
Explores the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fields
272 Pages • Paper 978-0814-76430-5 • $30.00 June 2018
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CITIZENSHIP BROKERING SERVITUDE
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Andrew Urban 352 Pages • Cloth 978-0-8147-8584-3 • $39.00 In the Culture, Labor, History series
“....Through skillful vignettes and deep research, we experience Castle Garden and shipside inspections of European women, the brokering of the Freemen’s Bureau, the tussle over sureties and temporary entrance of Chinese in the era of exclusion, and the ways that Empire, settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and migration shaped the value of domesticity.” —Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials,Linda Trinh Võ and K. Scott Wong Reconsiders and recalibrates the ever-shifting borders of Asian American studies as a distinctly interdisciplinary field
336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0328-6 • $27.00 Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry. Visit keywords.nyupress.org for more information and resources.
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Third Edition An Introduction
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Foreword by Angela Harris
Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more
224 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-0276-0 • $19.00 In the Critical America series
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A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Joshua Chambers-Letson
A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking
336 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-3277-4 • $30.00 In the Sexual Cultures series August 2018
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GLOBAL FAMILIES
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Catherine Ceniza Choy Unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States
244 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-9217-4 • $25.00 In the Nation of Nations series
ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA ACTIVISM Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
Lori Kido Lopez
How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship
272 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-6683-0 • $27.00 In the Critical Cultural Communication series Instructor’s Guide Available Winner, 2013-14 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction presented by the APALA
BEING MUSLIM
A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
Sylvia Chan-Malik
An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color
288 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-2342-0 • $29.00 June 2018
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RACIAL RECONSTRUCTION
Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Edlie L. Wong
Sheds new light on comparative racialization in America, and illuminates how slavery and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration to the West
304 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-1796-2 • $28.00 In the America and the Long 19th Century Series
NEOCITIZENSHIP
Political Culture after Democracy
Democracy and Race during the Cold War
Eva Cherniavsky
Examines the liberalization of immigration policies, which worked not only to increase the civil rights of Asian Americans but also to improve the nation’s ties with Asian countries during the Cold War.
232 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-9357-7 • $30.00
Cindy I-Fen Cheng
How political realities are formed when the government ceases to be a guarantor of rights and democracy
285 Pages • Paper 978-1-4798-8073-7 • $24.00 In the Nation of Nations series
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